This margin has to provide for the working costs of the blenders, packers and wholesale and retail distributors.
The blender does not want to keep tea in packet longer than he can help before he sends it out to the retailer.
The quality of a blended whisky depends on the quality and character of the single whiskies in the blend and the skill of the blender.
These moral and innocent blenders are only going to use an extremely small quantity of immature spirits.
The added complexity of dual facilities results in a minimum additional cost of £10 for single-grade models and £20 for blenders.
The initial response of the tea blenders has been disappointing.
None of the blenders was prepared to make an immediate reduction in the price of medium-priced tea.
The blenders are at present having to use higher qualities of tea for their blendings than would normally be used.
