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From Green Tea to Green Fields: Thailand’s “Mr. Tan” Is Betting $2.4 Million… Make That $2.4 Billion, on Fertilizer

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If you have ever cracked open a bottle of iced green tea in Thailand, there is a good chance the man behind it just placed a bet that has nothing to do with beverages at all. Tan Passakornnatee, the flamboyant entrepreneur widely known in Thailand by the honorific “Sia Tan” (a Thai-Chinese term of respect … Read more

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

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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