Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoWhat is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?message-squaremessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down16
arrow-up1176arrow-down1message-squareWhat is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square216fedilink
minus-squareSorteKaninAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·8 months agoIf its such a lucrative business for Ferrero, how come there aren’t competitors enough to make it so they can’t hog 25%?
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months ago80% goes to the EU confectionery industry, according to what I could quickly Google. So 65% go to Ferrero like companies that aren’t Ferrero.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·8 months agoAmerican candy manufacturing mostly uses peanuts and/or almonds instead, so they compete but not for filberts/hazelnuts. I will also contend that they’re not that good a nut on their own, they need chocolate to achieve their true destiny.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoI have to downvote you on the hazelnuts not being very good. They’re one of my favorite nuts, and they look cool!
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoTo me they look like chickpeas wearing windbreakers, and I prefer pecans. But you are welcome to your own preferences, enjoy! I do think hazelnuts are the very best nut with chocolate, even over pecans.
If its such a lucrative business for Ferrero, how come there aren’t competitors enough to make it so they can’t hog 25%?
80% goes to the EU confectionery industry, according to what I could quickly Google. So 65% go to Ferrero like companies that aren’t Ferrero.
80% - 25% = 55%
This is me, math genius. 😒
American candy manufacturing mostly uses peanuts and/or almonds instead, so they compete but not for filberts/hazelnuts.
I will also contend that they’re not that good a nut on their own, they need chocolate to achieve their true destiny.
I have to downvote you on the hazelnuts not being very good. They’re one of my favorite nuts, and they look cool!
To me they look like chickpeas wearing windbreakers, and I prefer pecans. But you are welcome to your own preferences, enjoy! I do think hazelnuts are the very best nut with chocolate, even over pecans.