{"id":8583,"date":"2012-02-14T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:27:40","slug":"v-day-for-the-love-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8583","title":{"rendered":"V-Day: For the Love of Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that Valentine&#8217;s Day is just a marketing ploy to buy gifts for your sweetie or large amounts of alcohol to deal with the public displays of affection, right? HA! I kid. Our friends at Euromonitor, the company that produces <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:944\/login?url=http:\/\/www.portal.euromonitor.com\/portal\/server.pt\">Passport GMID<\/a> sent over some interesting statistics* to highlight the season:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/02\/chocolate1.png\">Market Size Data &#8211; Chocolate Confectionery<\/a><br \/>\nAs it should be no surprise, the US is the biggest international market for chocolate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/02\/chocolate2.png\">Company Share Data: Chocolate Confectionery<\/a><br \/>\nMars, Inc., not Hershey, holds the top spot in the chocolate industry, but the two competitors control 53.5% of the total market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/02\/chocolate3.png\">Company Share Data: Jewelry<\/a><br \/>\nThe company with their own shade of blue, Tiffany &amp; Co, claims number one in jewelry production arena with a 8.5% market share.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the data and analysis on chocolate, jewelry, and consumer buying habits for over seventy other countries from <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.portal.euromonitor.com\/portal\/server.pt\">Passport GMID<\/a>. There also plenty of other information sources on countries available on our <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/guides\/country.html\">Selected Resources for Research on Countries<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/subject\/countryinfo.html\">Sources of Business Information: Countries<\/a> guides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">*posted with permission from the publisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that Valentine&#8217;s Day is just a marketing ploy to buy gifts for your sweetie or large amounts of alcohol to deal with the public displays of affection, right? HA! I kid. Our friends at Euromonitor, the company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}