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☆ How Tabasco fills up to 700,000 bottles of hot sauce a day
  + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Nigeria is the world's biggest cassava producer. So why doesn't it make money off exports?
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol.
☆ Fake Rolexes are dangerous in the $20 billion used watch market. How do dealers spot them?
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Daniel Gessner | Jeremy Dreyfuss | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ How Borsalino makes 70,000 fedoras with machines from the 1800s
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Sara Khan | Manuel Silva-Paulus | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
In Alessandria, Italy, craftsmen spend seven weeks making one Borsalino hat. Borsalino has used the same methods since 1857. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Loading Something is loading. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go.
☆ Why Singapore Changi Airport was just named best in the world
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Dylan Bank | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Singapore's Changi Airport won Skytrax's best airport award for the 12th time in March 2023. The tiny island nation has just 6 million residents but hosts between 30 and 70 million flyers a year. Singapore spends so much on its luxury airport because air transit brings in 10% of the country's GDP. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicySingapore's Changi Airport has been named the best airport in the world by Skytrax for the 12th time. But why does this tiny island country of just 6 million people host 30 to 70 million travelers a year?
☆ Why Singapore's most expensive homes are selling for up to $170 million
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Mark Adam Miller | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Good Class Bungalows are the most prestigious and expensive homes in Singapore, exclusive to the ultrarich. One GCB on Singapore's Billionaire's Row reportedly sold for $170 million. We tour two GCBs and Billionaire's Row to see what the rising prices mean for the rest of Singapore. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyGood Class Bungalows are the most prestigious and expensive homes in Singapore. GCBs even inspired homes in the movie "Crazy Rich Asians."
☆ How 200,000 Luffas Become Kitchen Sponges
  + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sara Khan | Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ What first, business, and premium economy classes are like on Singapore Airlines ft. MrBeast
  + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Daniel Gessner | Mark Adam Miller | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Vanilla is the world's second-most expensive spice. So why do Madagascar's farmers live in poverty?
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Why tiny cactus bugs in red food dye are a $35 billion industry
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Cochineals are parasites that live on cactuses, and the acid in their guts has been used as red dye for millennia. Today, cochineals are used to dye cosmetics and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait strawberry yogurt. But up against synthetic dyes, Mexican cochineal farms are dying off, taking the ancient tradition with them. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt. It can be found on the walls of archeological sites, in priceless paintings, and in the robes of kings.
☆ Why it costs $1 million a day to run one of the world's biggest cruise ships
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Why food commercials cost hundreds of thousands of dollars
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
It takes dozens of people, expensive robots, and fancy cameras to bring a fast food commercial to life. These crews use real food on set, so they have to film fast before it wilts. We visit The Garage in New York to see how the crew films ads for clients like Hershey's, Pepsi, and Domino's. But they use real food on set, so they work against the clock to film each take before it starts to wilt. We visit The Garage in Brooklyn, New York, to see how the crew films advertisements for clients like Hershey's, Pepsi, and Domino's.
☆ Mezcal is now the fastest-growing liquor in the US. Why aren't Mexican producers cashing in?
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
It's left smaller Mexican producers with a fraction of the profits. But as demand soars stateside, small Mexican mezcal producers aren't making the big bucks. While Mexican regulations do require mezcal to be made in Mexico, that hasn't stopped large, international companies from scooping up mezcal supplies, repackaging them, and reselling them for huge profits abroad. And the only organization that can stand in the way, the mezcal certifying agency COMERCAM, has faced claims of favoritism of large companies over smaller, traditional ones. This has left some century-old mezcal brands frustrated and fearful that their ancestral ways of making mezcal are at risk.
☆ Limes Cost 350% More As Cartels Terrorize Mexican Farmers
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
The price of limes was three times higher than usual at the start of 2022. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how on farm is harvesting millions of limes as cartels close in. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. And then, after terrorizing lime farmers in western Mexican states for years, cartels began expanding their turf. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how one farm is harvesting and processing millions of limes in the face of growing instability.
☆ How mountains of worm cocoons are turned into expensive silk in Vietnam
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Making silk is a tedious process that includes raising hungry worms and hand-pulling silk from cocoons. In Vietnam, traditional craft villages have struggled as cheaper, fake silk floods the market. But families in Nam Cao village saved their silk business by banding together and forming a cooperative. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. We head to northern Vietnam to learn how Nam Cao village saved its big business of silk.
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