candy bar is a butter cookie topped with a thick layer of caramel and the whole bar covered in dairy milk chocolate. The size of the candy fingers is about four inches long and half an inch thick‚ two of these are packaged together in a single wrapper. The Twix brand is owned by Mars‚ Inc which is one of the largest confectionery manufacturers globally. The product was first created by Mars Limited in the UK in 1967 at the company’s factory in Slough which is also where the current Mars Bar was invented
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Andrea Torres is the director of new product development at Montreaux Chocolate USA. She is in charge of delivering a comprehensive presentation to the Board of the company regarding her and her team’s research and findings about the purchase of the rights to distribute Monteaux’s European chocolate in the US‚ as a way to increase the company’s market share in pursuit of the upscale market segments. There are three main options she is considering and needs to be able to make recommendation as to
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THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE Many people believe that chocolate originally came from Europe. However‚ chocolate‚ called the “food of the gods‚” was first made in the Americas. The first chocolate was very different from contemporary chocolate. Wild chocolate trees can grow easily in the humid Amazon rainforest. Clusters of flowers growing on these trees turn to seeds. About 20 to 60 cacao beans can be found in the seeds. Cacao beans are the ingredient needed to create sweet‚ soothing
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Milky Bar is a white chocolate treat bar targeted mainly at young children or families. It appeals to this market by using fun character shapes for the bars and fun packaging as well as claiming to use all natural ingredients to encourage parents to purchase it. Its packaging is white‚ which gives it a ‘purity’ factor as well as making it stand out on shelves and bars are individually wrapped‚ making it easy to pop into a lunchbox. Although it is at maturity+ stage in the product cycle it has not
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Harvesting Cacao is Hard Work We tend to think of chocolate making as an assembly-line process. Most people picture automated presses plopping out candies onto conveyor belts at speeds unmatched by humans. But before cacao reaches the machinery of a chocolate factory‚ it must first pass through the hands of a farmer. Making chocolate takes years of manual labor. Like most agricultural crops‚ cacao must be closely monitored by farmers. They regularly walk their fields and check for pests‚
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Dark chocolate is brimming with antioxidants and heart-healthy properties‚ research finds Tuesday‚ April 05‚ 2011 by: James Schreiber http://www.naturalnews.com/031959_dark_chocolate_antioxidants.html (NaturalNews) Ongoing research shows that eating dark chocolate exerts beneficial effects throughout the whole body. High quality chocolate delivers disease-zapping antioxidants‚ lowers blood pressure and protects your heart and liver‚ all in one fell crunch. Chemistry Central Journal brings
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source is associated to this holiday… chocolate. But when you get that heart shaped box of goodies do you stop and think about where it came from? Who made it? Who’s forced out of their homes into slavery onto cocoa farms working in inhumane conditions? How about the young boys who are beaten down at the ages of 12 to 16‚ or even younger. Neither did I. When you think of chocolate you think of words such as sweet‚ delicious‚ rich. When these children think of chocolate they think of words such as pain
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insatisfecho‚ aquel que busca un bar diferenciado y que al mismo tiempo lo coloque en contacto con otra cultura la que normalmente no se accede con facilidad. Así nació " Mr. Ice"‚ un bar- nevería. "Mr. Ice" posee dos propuestas diferentes‚ destinadas a públicos distintos‚ pero siempre atendiendo a sus necesidades con una actitud de servicio única y de calidad. Por esta razón decidimos que nuestro bar- nevería sea en el horario de la tarde‚ pasando luego a ser un bar que ofrece la posibilidad de distenderse
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BAR DIAGRAMS Bar diagrams are one of easiest and the most commonly used devices of presenting most of the business and economic data. These are satisfactory for categorical data or series. They consist a group of equidistant rectangles‚ one of each group or category of the data in which the values or the magnitudes are represented by the length or height of the rectangles‚ the width of the rectangles being arbitrary and immaterial. These diagrams are called one-dimensional because in such diagrams
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Helix Company produces several products in its factory‚ including a karate robe. The company uses a standard cost system to assist in the control of costs. According to the standards that have been set for the robes‚ the factory should work 780 direct labour-hours each month and produce 2600 robes. The standard costs associated with this level of production are as follows: | | Total | Per Unit of Product | Direct materials | $ | 53248 | $ 20.48 | Direct labour | $ | 8320 |
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