Tan is the 53-year-old founder and chief executive of Ichitan Group, which started making flavored tea drinks less than two years ago.

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After introducing lemonade and fruit-flavored ice tea in distinctive wide-mouth bottles, the company went public in a much-ballyhooed initial public offering in 1992.

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We ultimately came out with a green-tea flavored Oreo.

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Think ancient beauty potions and tea-flavored toothpaste.

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The bestseller is tea-flavored.

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