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prepis:
1.Do you run your customer relationship through the internet only?

For overseas market, yes. Our company is a representative of our member manufacturers exclusively for overseas market. Each manufacturer run their customer relationship through internet, telephone and store front in domestic market.

2. What advantages, pros and cons do you see in running bussiness through internet?
Pros:
There is no disadvantage by a physical location.
It is less expensive and easier to get visitors to our website.
Market is global
Have a chance to get acquainted with people who share similar interests in many countries.


Cons:
More risk of fraud concerning payment.
More risk of undelivered or missing item.
Increasing competitive.
High shipping cost.



3. What does majority of your customer look like?(Occupation,.age, country...diversity)

The majority of our customer look like somewhat male, educated, high on the social ladder.

About 50% - United States

About 30% - France

About 5% - Canada

About 5% - United Kingdom

About 5% - Germany

About 5% - other countries



4. Are you a family company?

We are small private company which was jointly established by 4 individuals.

5. What is an advantage of buying tea directly from vendor-farm?

This is very good question. You can purchase fresh and high quality green tea at reasonable prices.
You will receive your order normally within a week in US, and 10days in many other countries from tea manufacturer in Japan.
Freshness is one the most important elements when you purchase Japanese green tea. High grade green tea is very delicate and must be handled tenderly.
Please let me introduce how to make a green tea first.
There are two main process for producing "Sencha"(a green tea most commonly drunk in Japan), "Aracha" production process and finishing process.
"Aracha" production process is:
1. Steamed for 1-2minutes.
2. Agitated, rubbed and hot-air drying for about 45minutes, keeping the temperature of tealeaves about 35 degree C.
3. Rubbed applying pressure in order to uniform moisture content for about 20minutes.
4. Agitated and rubbed with rotating, and hot-air drying for about 40minutes. Tea leaves are getting ravelling.
5. The process to make tealeaves needle like shape. Heat the kiln under the machine adding poundage. This process is very important and requires proficient skill.
6. Drying process. Hot-air drying with the temperature about 80degree C until moisture content of tealeaves becomes about 5%.



Finishing process is:
1. Sifting, cutting and trimming.
2. Heating - forms volatile sulfur amino acid, pyrazine and furan compound., etc. by pyrognostics of amino acid and sugar, which generate the aroma.
3. Selecting and blending.
Tealeaves plucked are processed into Aracha on the same day, and packed by nitrogen decompression per 30kg, and stored in minus 10 degree C., which enable to keep the quality of tealeaves in nearly perfect condition. Then about once a 2 weeks, the Aracha are finished and stored again in zero degree C. Most of these finished teas are sold out in 2 weeks.
So we can say that you can get fresh-finished green tea within a week at the earliest, within about a month at the latest, while most supermarkets sell old and low-quality green tea which has been stored improperly.





Also, I have attached some photos.



I thank you again very much for your kindness, and hope you have a wonderful weekend.



Sincerely yours,



Masahiko Nishiki






a nejake foto:
cerstvy nespracovany caj ARACHA :


kotrnola kvality:



stroj na skaldovanie cerstveho caju:


rucny zber v oblasti shizuoka:




vsetky foto su z farmy v schizuoke ktorych caj distribuje www.zencha.net