日出茶太 Chatime

Established: 2005 Parent company: 六角國際事業股份有限公司 CEO: 王耀輝 Wang Yao-hui Website: https://www.chatime.com.tw/zh/ Background Founded in 2005, Chatime spans six continents and has more than 50 locations in more than 50 regions and countries. At present, it has more than 1,000 stores around the world and has the advantage of being the first in terms of market in many countries such…

Snowball’s DrinkOrNot campaign featured in AmCham’s January 2022 Food & Beverage Issue

We’re including an excerpt from the article here.  Please visit The Great Shake-off: Surviving and Thriving in Taiwan’s Tea Drink Market for the full original article.   The lucrative industry of hand-shaken tea beverages has received attention from the Taiwan government, human rights groups, and the island’s many entrepreneurs. But with the growing politicization of…

萬波 Wanpo Tea Shop

Established: 2019 Parent company: 安谷國際股份有限公司 CEO: 張庭偉 Zhang Ting-wei Website: https://wanpotea.com/ Background Wanpo took the military dependent villages cultural concept as the brand’s starting point to share stories of the life in village. They listed nearly 800 military dependent villages in Taiwan into tea cans and placed them in the store. Wanpo uses Taiwanese tea…

歇腳亭ShareTea

Established: 1992 Parent company: 聯發國際餐飲事業股份有限公司 CEO: Zheng Kai-long 鄭凱隆 Website:https://www.1992sharetea.com.tw/ Background Lianfa International Catering Co., Ltd. was founded by Mr. Zheng Kailong in 1992, offering take-out bubble black tea, pearl milk tea and other drinks.¹ Established on Nanyang Street, ShareTea is a memory of many Taipei students during their years of studying. Although there are only…

Snowball’s DrinkOrNot campaign featured in SanLi News 三立新聞

We’re including an excerpt from the video here.  Please visit 台灣是我家啦! 從宣揚民主到野鳥保育 這些老外超愛台! 美籍新創企業家推出”民主自由飲料榜”動物專家曾幫台灣爭取國際地位! for the full original video.   Colin, who is a fan of drink shops, ranked drink shops not based on whether the drinks are good or not, but based on the brand’s support for freedom and democracy. Including the number of branches…

Snowball’s DrinkOrNot campaign featured in TVBS

We’re including an excerpt from the article here.  Please visit 台灣手搖飲「人權自由價值」分數曝光 6家遭評絕對不買  for the full original article.   A community group called “Snowball” has ranked at least 20 famous drink shops in Taiwan, based on what those shops stand for: pro-China, or, neutral,or anti-communist. Their behaviors, food safety, employee benefits and other systematic indicators, also “human…