notes to the financial statements - Food Empire Holdings Limited

Food Empire Holdings Limited Annual Report 2012
FROM LIGHTNING
TO LIGHTING
ZAP! He fainted and fell to the ground,
his kite lying lifeless beside him.
Benjamin Franklin had done it. He had
proven that lightning produces electricity,
and had managed to store it within a
metal key.
Although electricity was discovered much
earlier, it was a novelty to use. Benjamin
Franklin is to be thanked for the creation
of the lightning rod, entrapping a natural
source of electricity, and acting as a
conductor that is to be used in the daily
routine of ordinary folks.
LAND OF
THE BRAVE
It was all an accident. Christopher
Columbus didn’t mean to wash up on
the shores of the Americas. A trader r by
profession, Christopher and his brother,
Bartholomew, wanted to gain riches
from East Asia. The infamous Silk Road
crossing had proven to be dangerous,
and a trip around the South African coast
would prove too lengthy. So straight
across the Atlantic Ocean he went.
In his original calculations, he thought
that Asia would be 2,400 miles from
Portugal. He was way off. It was actually
10,000 miles away! Not to mention the
huge continent in between.
America. Known as the father of the new
world, on his next visit he introduced
horses to the people there, as a mode of
transportation and conquest.
MOONWALKER
“That’s one small step for Man, one giant
leap for Mankind.”
History was made on July 21st, 1969,
when Neil Armstrong stepped out from
his spacecraft and made the first footprint
on the lunar surface. Together with Buzz
Aldrin, the second man to walk on the
moon, they collected actual moon rocks
and spent over 21 hours on the uneven
craters of the moon.
BEAN RUSH
COFFEE PLANTS
OPTIMALLY THRIVE IN
THE TROPICS. BETWEEN
THE TROPICS OF CANCER
AND CAPRICORN, ALL 65
COUNTRIES WHERE COFFEE IS
GROWN ARE FOUND ALONG
THIS EQUATOR REGION.
COFFEE BEANS DON’T
COME IN SHADES
OF BROWN; STARTING
OUT YELLOW, THEY RIPEN
INTO A RED BERRY, WHICH
IS THEN HANDPICKED TO
HARVEST. A WATER SOAKING
PROCESS DE-SHELLS THE RED
BERRY, UNVEILING THE FINAL
PRODUCT: A RAW GREEN
COFFEE BEAN.
COFFEE CAN ACTUALLY
BE USED TO FUEL A
CAR. THOUGH MAYBE NOT
VERY EFFICIENTLY AT THE
MOMENT, IT IS NICE TO KNOW
THAT THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE
OUT THERE THAT CAN NOT
ONLY FUEL OUR BODIES BUT
OUR VEHICLES TOO.
COFFEE IS THE SECOND
MOST TRADED
COMMODITY IN THE
WORLD, SECOND ONLY
TO OIL, AND NOW THAT WE
KNOW IT CAN BE USED AS A
SOURCE OF FUEL IT PROBABLY
WON’T BE TOO LONG BEFORE
IT’S NUMBER 1.
This new world brought new
opportunities, and he was the first
European explorer to conquer North
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