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Blood, Sweat and Luxuries
2010 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods.
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An excellent post, and I look forward to seeing the suggestions.
Does she know and understand "added value"? Does she know about the chain of production from raw material, through processors and wholesalers, to retail?
There's some BBC programmes called "Blood Sweat and Luxuries". I hesitate to recommend these because she may be a bit young for them. (They're a bit depressing, and they might have some swearing.) They might be available through some unofficial method. Here's the link to the BBC information page for them. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s6103)
The episodes about the sapphire mine or about gold are particularly good. You see just how much work is involved in getting tiny amounts of gold out of ore.
And you can use everyday examples to show her business concepts. Coffee is a good example for price differentiation. A cup of hot water and coffee has a cost. Adding a squiz of cream and flavoured syrup adds very little to the cost but allows them to sell the cup for a lot more to people who want to pay more.