Statistiques anglaises sur le marché du chocolat
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Some Interesting Facts and Figures

Americans are ranked 8th, in terms of the amount of candy and chocolate consumed per person per country.

Americans eat an average of 11.7lbs of candy per person annually.

England consumes the most candy with an average consumption rate of 30lbs per person. Switzerland and Germany follow

England with an average consumptions rate of 21.6lbs and 19.67lbs per person respectively.

Retail candy sales in America were an estimated  $23.5 billion last year. Retail chocolate sales alone were worth $13 billion.

Halloween is the top candy-consuming holiday, followed by the Christmas holidays, Easter and Valentines Day.

During the 1999 Christmas season,  U.S. consumers spent more than $300 million on chocolate and $1.45 billion on all candy.

More than1.75 billion candy canes will be made for the Christmas/Hanukkah season.

For Easter, more than 60 million chocolate bunnies will be made in the U.S. alone.

More than 35 million heart-shaped candy boxes will be sold for Valentine’s day. About fifty percent of women will likely give a gift of chocolate to a man for Valentine’s Day.
 

The English chocolate company,  Cadburys, introduced the first chocolate box in 1868. They also introduced the first Valentine’s day chocolate box.

Half of the world’s almonds and a quarter of the world’s peanut crops are used every year by chocolate manufacturers.