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Twix: Branded By Mars Incorporated

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Twix is a brand of candy that is owned by Mars Incorporated. The main ingredients needed to make the product are milk, sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, flour and palm oil. The chocolate and cocoa butter come from the cocoa bean. The cocoa bean comes from a cocoa tree, and is grown by farmers around the equator (1). After the beans are fermented and dry enough, the cocoa farmers, the cocoa farmers will bring them to cocoa processors (1). Next the beans are packed into sacks and containers and shipped to Mars Incorporated manufacturing facilities in the United States (1). Importers are used to allow for a seamless transition into the United States. The cocoa is one of our international components. Mars Inc. gets their cocoa from …show more content…

Cocoa is not only our most important ingredient, but also our only international component. “In Cote D’Ivoire, there are 17 Cocoa Development Centers (CDCs), which also include four franchise developments that were built by our collaborators”(4). Cote D’Ivoire has many beach resorts along its coastal strip, once you go farther into the mainland it is mostly rainforests and wooded areas. The country Ivory coast, which is bordered by Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, and lastly Guinea. Cote D’Ivoire has many differences in comparison with the United States, for example their native language is French. There are 37 Mars Manufacturers, but the main headquarters is located in Hackettstown, New Jersey. The locations of the two places are approximately 4,766 miles. “The government of Cote D’Ivoire is open to trade with many different countries throughout the world. Their government is a republic, which makes rules on trade more lenient”(5). “There are no bilateral investment or taxation treaties between Cote D’Ivoire and the United States”(6). The average income level of the citizens of Cote D’Ivoire is classified as “lower …show more content…

In comparison, “the religion of the United States of America is made up of 51.3% Protestant, 23.9% Roman Catholic, 1.7% Mormon, 1.6% other Christian, 1.7% Jewish, .7% Buddhist, .6% Muslim, 2.5% unspecified, 12.1% unaffiliated, and lastly 4% no religious preference”(5). Although the United States is more religiously diverse than the Ivory Coast, this will not have a major effect on communications or trade relations between the two

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