A barcode (also bar code) is a machine-readable representation of information (usually dark ink on a light background to create high and low reflectance which is converted to 1s and 0s). Originally‚ barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines‚ but today they also come in patterns of dots‚ concentric circles‚ and text codes hidden within images. Barcodes can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers or scanned from an image by special software. Barcodes are widely
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Energy Bar Overview The energy bar market grew from a grass roots effort focused on the consumer base of performance athletes. These athletes usually obtained products at competitive events that were geared towards the everyday consumer. The build up of this market is attributed to PowerBar‚ but there was significant contribution from others. PowerBar and the Market PowerBar began as a company seeking to create a performance-enhancing food that marathoners could consume during an energy-draining
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Why is Dark Chocolate Healthy?: Chocolate is made from plants‚ which means it contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from flavonoids‚ which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused by free radicals‚ which can cause damage that leads to heart disease. Dark chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times the number found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood pressure through the production of nitric oxide
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Trends Chocolate confectionery is expected to register positive growth during 2012 due to rising consumption‚ which are in turn derived from rising living standards. Chocolate confectionery remains very popular in Kazakhstan and it is considered to be a very tasty delicacy in spite of the widespread knowledge that excessive consumption of chocolate confectionery is potentially harmful. Chocolate is more often than not purchased in impulse in Kazakhstan. Chocolate confectionery is expected to increase
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Cognitive Daily would not exist without chocolate. Every week‚ I buy a bag of chocolate covered raisins‚ and I portion them out precisely each day so that I’ve finished them by all by (casual) Friday. I try to time my consumption to coincide with the most difficult part of the job: reporting on peer-reviewed journal articles. The little news items‚ Ask a ScienceBlogger responses‚ and other miscellaneous announcements can be completed unassisted by chocolate‚ but then there wouldn’t be much reason
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Term Paper December 5‚ 2012 Manet and The Bar Edouard Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere‚ was completed in 1882 and is considered his last great painting. He displayed it at the Paris Salon just one year before his passing. This painting as vexed art historians throughout the years for its complex visual subject matter and leaves Manets true interpretation of his painting in the air for discussion. Although there are many interpretations‚ A Bar at the Folies-Bergere is an avant-garde; viewer
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The Day Chocolate Case International marketing Assignment 1 Date: 2nd of March 2011 Group 1.4 Table of contents Table of contents 2 1. Introduction 4 1.2. Main characteristics of The Day Chocolate Company 4 1.3. Porters Diamond 5 1.4. Comparative industry structure analysis: Porter’s five forces 5 2. Applying available theories‚ concepts and statistics to answer the requested questions 6 2.1. Question 1: Describe the consumer segment Day Chocolate is aiming
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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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MSGL 502 Ethics and Leadership An Ethical look into Slavery in the Chocolate Industry People around the world share a love of chocolate‚ one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However‚ thousands of Africa’s children are modern-day slaves‚ bonded to their employers and forced against their will to work in hazardous and heartbreaking conditions. Slavery in the chocolate industry has been widely publicized through the years. The face of enslaved children has been the
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Why do you think colonel Darling chose sole trader as a form of business organization and when and why might his company have become a partnership. Joshua Darling was a retired army colonel‚ who returned after the army to Liverpool‚ where he was born‚ opened a chocolate factory and set up his own business as a sole trader in July 1933. Why colonel Darling chose a sole proprietorship as a form of business organization? First of all‚ a sole proprietorship was suitable for his nature as he could
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