Glansbillede familien, 1,75 børn , villa, vovse og Volvo er i opløsning. Nogle steder mere end andre. Mere udpræget i by områder, mindre på landet. For Danmarks vedkommende mere i Øst end i Vest osv. Trenden er dog klar: Samfundsstrukturen er i opbrud! Mere end 40% af alle Europas husholdninger er single. I byområder som Oslo, Stockholm og København taler vi om op til 60-70% single husholdninger. Vi spiser ikke tre måltider om dagen men snarere et sted mellem 5 og 7 – og flere af dem på farten. Ét ud af to ægteskaber går i opløsning. Den kendte samfundsstruktur fragmenteres. Ikke noget under at mere en 47% af befolkningen føler sig stressede. Udover at det fragmenterede samfund stiller nye krav til os, sætter det også fokus på en ressource, som er blevet ekstremt knap for alle (uanset social status og position i samfundet) manglen på tid.
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The sweet tooth theme continues. Starbucks, certainly one of the most successful new B2C businesses to hit urban and recreational areas in years, smartly put coffee at the heart of its ‘third places’ or BEING SPACES. Needless to say, the other hot drink, tea is now getting in on the game as well, with tea rooms popping up everywhere from Taiwan to California. So, what’s next? Well, a third place deserves a third hot drink: add cocoa to the hot list!
See examples and comments at
http://www.springwise.com/newbusinessideas/chocolastic.htm
Eat The Seeds. You probably don’t know that pomegranate seeds are edible because only five percent of Americans have ever even tried a pomegranate, as reported by David Armstrong in Forbes (2/2/04). That’s pretty sad for a fruit that’s been around since 3000 B.C. The pomegranate’s stock is rising, however, because, according to Mintel’s Global New Product Database, some 59 new pomegranate products were introduced last year. One of the hottest is a pomegranate drink called Pom Wonderful, said to be “the fastest-growing drink in the premium refrigerated juice market.” Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver are also working pomegranates into their recipes, and an uptick in pomegranate seeds on salads and deserts has been noted at upscale restaurants.
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http://reveries.com/cool_news/2004/january/jan_23b.html
http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004593
Over the past week, concerns about the arrival of the Seattle java giant filtered their way through the media. The usual French suspects talked about Simone and Jean-Paul and their smart set turning in their graves at the sight of the latest American cultural invasion. And just how do we know Starbucks won’t feed us American Frankenfood?
Yet the English-speaking denizens were even more exercised. “Is this the final fall of French civilization?” asked Theodore Dalrymple, a recent exile to France, only half in jest in the Times (of London). Jeffrey the New Yorker, a writer-in-Paris acquaintance of mine, pledged to throw a brick through the window. In case Jeffrey makes good on the threat, I’ll leave out his full name.
Is this coincidence or does it mark a changing of the guard?
From the Seatle Times:
The Economistmakes it official Starbucks is a global company. The London-based business magazine recently used the price of a Starbucks tall latte around the world to determine whether foreign currencies are over- or undervalued against the dollar.
For years, the Economist limited itself to burgernomics, using the price of aMcDonald’s Big Mac hamburger to measure whether exchange rates were appropriate. It used an economic theory called purchasing power parity over time, exc
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001842095_dunphy23.html
