{"id":11881,"date":"2014-12-22T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2014-12-21T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T03:51:13","slug":"korean-airlines-boosts-macadamia-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/korean-airlines-boosts-macadamia-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Airlines Boosts Macadamia Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122214_0340_KoreanAirli1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Korean Airlines executive (who has since resigned) made global headlines when she forced a plane to return to the gate after her outrage over being served macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate. Macadamia nut growers could not be happier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sales of macadamia nuts got a substantial boost after the incident made headlines.<\/li>\n<li>Demand was driven, in part, by Koreans who before the outburst weren&#8217;t widely aware of macadamias.<\/li>\n<li>Prices for the nut have risen 10% this year.<\/li>\n<li>The Australian Macadamia Society says that macadamia sales used to make up 5% of total nut sales. They are now responsible for 50%.<\/li>\n<li>In Korea one retailer reports that sales have increased 149% in a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why this is just the beginning for the humble macadamia nut at the source links below.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au\/news\/macadamia-sales-take-off\/2491882\/\">Fraser Coast Chronicle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/korearealtime\/2014\/12\/10\/macadamia-sales-take-off-after-korean-air-nut-row\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Korean Airlines executive (who has since resigned) made global headlines when she forced a plane to return to the gate after her outrage over being served macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate. Macadamia nut growers could not be happier: Sales of macadamia nuts got a substantial boost after the incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122214_0340_KoreanAirli1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11883,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/11883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}