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Name: Ellis Cordaro Teacher: Ms. McGann Class: Science Date: 4/14/10

Topic: Chocolate Consumption

**Chocolate Hot Spots**
//The Western World of Chocolate// Statistics show that chocolate production and consumption is mostly western world dominated. Switzerland is the largest consumer of chocolate in the world The average person in Switzerland eats 22.36 lbs/year The worldwide profit from chocolate sales is concentrated in these countries, 80% of the world chocolate market is accounted for by just six transnational companies, including Nestle, Mars and Cadbury. Europeans alone consume around 40% of the world's cocoa per year, 85% of which is imported from West Africa. //Chocolate production fact:// The organic cocoa market represents a very small share of the total cocoa market, estimated at less than 0.5% of total production // The Eastern World Of Chocolate // Because chocolate consumption and production is western world dominated, chocolate is not widely consumed in the east,With the exception of Japan and Australia, Japan is in 17Th place, and Australia is in 9Th place both out of the twenty chocolate loving countries. Thought not widely consumed in most eastern countries chocolate has been able to work its way into eastern culture.

**Country/Ranking Average pound consumption**

 * **Switzerland 1st Place** || **22.36 lbs/year (per person)** ||
 * **Austria 2nd Place** || **20.13 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Ireland 3rd Place** || **19.47 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Germany 4th Place** || **18.04 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Norway 5th Place** || **17.93 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Denmark 6th Place** || **17.66 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **United Kingdom 7th Place** || **17.49 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Belgium 8th Place** || **13.16 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Australia 9th Place** || **12.99 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Sweden 10th Place** || **12.90 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **United States 11th Place** || **11.64 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **France 12th Place** || **11.38 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Netherlands 13th Place** || **10.56 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Finland 14th Place** || **10.45 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Italy 15th Place** || **6.13 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Greece 16th Place** || **5.01 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Japan 17th Place** || **3.90 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Spain 18th Place** || **3.37 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Portugal 19th Place** || **2.67 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||
 * **Brazil 20th Place** || **2.25 lbs/year** **(per person)** ||

US$millions** || References: > >
 * Leading Chocolate Company Sales**:
 * **Company** || **Total Sales 2005
 * **Company** || **Total Sales 2005
 * Mars Inc[[image:maqrsbar0520.jpg width="71" height="27" align="left"]] || 9,546 ||
 * [[image:cadbury460.jpg width="66" height="40"]]Cadbury Schweppes PLC || 8,126 ||
 * [[image:nestle-logo.jpg width="77" height="52"]]Nestlé SA || 7,973 ||
 * [[image:ferrero-rocher.jpg width="69" height="51"]]Ferrero SpA || 5,580 ||
 * [[image:_var_blogusers_attachments_1114088671238_HersheyBar.jpg width="97" height="56"]]Hershey Foods Corp. || 4,881 ||
 * [[image:kraft.gif width="99" height="42"]]Kraft Foods Inc. || 2,250 ||
 * [[image:meijilarge.gif width="122" height="46"]]Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. || 1,693 ||
 * [[image:lindt.jpg width="91" height="52"]]Lindt & Sprüngli || 1,673 ||
 * [[image:2008_02_callebaut.jpg width="152" height="33"]]Barry Callebaut AG || 1,427 ||
 * [[image:box_glico_milk_toffee2.png width="116" height="72"]]Ezaki Glico Co || 1,239 ||
 * [[image:box_glico_milk_toffee2.png width="116" height="72"]]Ezaki Glico Co || 1,239 ||
 * //Candy Industry, January 2006//
 * ICCO http://www.icco.org/
 * World Atlas of Chocolate http://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/consum/consum.html