Gigantic billboard for chocolate bar contends for world record

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 8, 2011, shows a big billboard -- about 166 meters in width and 28 m in height -- in the form of a chocolate bar in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Confectionery maker Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. set up the billboard along the outer surface of its factory ahead of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 when it is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men. The company has applied to Guinness World Records for the billboard to be registered as the world's biggest advertising board made of plastic.

• Product Code
• ILEA001156563

• Registered date
• 2011/2/08 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2011 Kyodo News

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• 1889 × 964 pixel

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• 240 dpi

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• 505.21(KB)*

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