{"id":5436,"date":"2012-08-08T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2012-08-08T03:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T07:06:36","slug":"the-afghan-ice-cream-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-afghan-ice-cream-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan Ice-Cream Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072912_1748_TheAfghanIc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a heart-warming story Emma Graham-Harrison reported from Kabul on a business that has grown rapidly and has managed to cross all ethnic, language, and ideological differences. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahmad Faizy decided to capitalize on his hometown&#8217;s reputation for making the best ice-cream in Afghanistan. He began with a $500,000 investment and now estimates that his company is worth $15 million.<\/li>\n<li>The ice -cream goes to the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan in expensive refrigerated trucks. Yet they are never attacked because &#8220;even the Taliban like ice-cream.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The ice-cream is sold from street vendors who announce their arrival with a loudspeaker that blares &#8220;My Heart Will Go On&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Estimates suggest that 2\/3rds of Afghans are below the age of 25 \u2013 an ideal market for a budding ice-cream business.<\/li>\n<li>Faizy produces 30 tonnes of ice-cream a day and each packaged item costs around 20 cents.<\/li>\n<li>The company is backed by a US government team that aims to develop small enterprise.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest problem the company faces is competition from Iranian ice-cream makers who have taken note of the opportunity and are undercutting price to gain market share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful story from a country that for the past century or so has had to deal with arguably the worst circumstances in the world. If you click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jul\/26\/taliban-ice-cream-afghan-confectioner\">here<\/a> you can find out about future plans, barriers to doing business in Afghanistan, the different ice-cream flavours available, what happens in the winter, what they need to grow even more, and a review of their products with a surprising conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jul\/26\/taliban-ice-cream-afghan-confectioner\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/07\/assorted-links-521.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heart-warming story Emma Graham-Harrison reported from Kabul on a business that has grown rapidly and has managed to cross all ethnic, language, and ideological differences. Highlights include: Ahmad Faizy decided to capitalize on his hometown&#8217;s reputation for making the best ice-cream in Afghanistan. He began with a $500,000 investment and now estimates that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","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\/2012\/07\/072912_1748_TheAfghanIc1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","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=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}