Customers who visited BoV branches on September 13 were in for a sweet surprise as they were treated to a chocolate to commemorate International Chocolate Day.
Peter Perotti, chief officer personal banking at BoV, said: “International Chocolate Day was the perfect opportunity to thank customers for their loyalty and good will.”
Facts about chocolate
• It takes a year’s crop from one tree to make half a kilo of cocoa.
• Africa produces over 66 per cent of the world’s chocolate supply.
• 17,000 people in Belgium – one in every 200 workers – are involved in the making, selling and promotion of chocolate.
• The first cacao trees were found growing in the Amazon river basin and the foot-hills of the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes.
• Chocolate is actually a valuable energy source.
• Approximately seven billion chocolate chips are eaten each year.
• Chocolate has great health benefits. It helps with depression, high blood pressure, tumours and pre-menstrual pain. Chocolate acts as an anti-depressant by increasing serotonin and endorphin levels in the brain.
• People spend more than €5 billion a year on chocolate.