MTI announces Tea Strategy Forum

Janaki Kuruppu, Chairperson, Sri Lanka Tea Board

Kumar Jayasuriya, Chairman, Finlays

In keeping with MTI’s thought leadership efforts to focus on industries critical to the Sri Lankan economy, MTI has announced that the Tea Strategy Forum would be held on January 23, 2013 at the Hilton Residencies, Colombo.

Chairperson of Sri Lanka Tea Board, Janaki Kuruppu will deliver the keynote address at the MTI Tea Strategy Forum, which is expected to be attended by tea industry professionals and those with an interest in the strategic development of the tea industry. The forum will be based on MTI’s Tea Industry Value Chain Model comprising seven modules i.e. Consume, Retail, Channel, Develop, Trade, Produce and Grow.

MTI, through their main presentation on the Outside-in perspective of the industry will highlight the key challenges at each stage of the seven module value chain.

It will be supported by a panel comprising industry experts from each of the seven value chain modules. Kumar Jayasuriya, Chairman of Finlays PLC will be among the panelists and expects to share his opinion covering many parts of the tea value chain.