The Tea Tycoon Who Wants to Sell You Fertilizer: Inside Thailand’s Unlikely Agribusiness Bet

Thailand’s best-known bottled tea entrepreneur just placed a bet that has nothing to do with tea. Ichitan Group, the company behind the ubiquitous green-and-gold Ichitan iced tea bottles found in nearly every 7-Eleven from Chiang Mai to Phuket, is moving into fertilizer — a business as far removed from beverages as motor oil is from … Read more