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This year's Sweets and Snacks Expo is set for May 21-23 at McCormick Place in Chicago. More than 800 exhibitors had registered in mid-April, and at least 30 countries will [...]

ECRM hosted its annual Candy Planning: Christmas & Halloween session at Bally's Las Vegas in February For those unfamiliar, ECRM programs bring together manufacturers and candy buyers for meetings that [...]

Better Together Toppings[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. Hermans Nut House[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. Maggie's Gourmet Popcorn[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. Pear's Gourmet[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. Pop Kernels[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. Sun Kernels[R]--Marathon Ventures Inc. 3 MUSKETEERS Brand--Mars [...]

When Domori, the fine flavor chocolate manufacturer based in None, Italy, and Tecno 3, the specialty confectionery equipment supplier located in Corneliano D'Alba, Italy, began their 14-year collaboration in 1994, [...]

Thomas Edison's description of opportunity still rings true today. And one could easily substitute the word entrepreneurship for opportunity. As Chris Edwards, co-ceo of Edward Marc Brands explains, many potential [...]

BEST NEW NON-CHOCOLATE Perfetti Van Melle, Inc. Erlanger, Ky. / perfettivanmelle.com (859) 263-1234 Airheads White Mystery Bites These chewy, bite-sized pieces come in a mix of flavors, but without the [...]

When it comes to innovation, a beloved, top-hatted confectioner has the perfect formula. 'Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation and 2 percent [...]

The sleek Gateway Arch, stately Busch Stadium and the muddy Mississippi River snaking along the city's eastern edge are among the most recognizable symbols of St. Louis. But there's one [...]

When Candy Industry first visited Arona, Italy-based Laica back in the spring of 2003, Andrea Saini, now the company's managing chairman and ceo director, revealed how he had consistently pressed [...]

3 MUSKETEERS Brand - Mars Wrigley Confectionery 3-D BEARS - FINI SWEETS - Sanchez Cano s.a. 5-Hour Energy - Living Essentials 750 - AMP ROSE 800 CANDY BAR[R] - Flyer [...]

Across Foods LLC 608 Coach Dr. New Hope, PA 18938 (215) 693-6274 Fax: (267) 895-6311 info@acrossfoods.com Adams & Brooks Inc. 4343 Hallmark Pkwy. San Bernardino, CA 92407 (213) 749-3226 (800) [...]

If there are two things Eric Eslao enjoys, it's chocolate and cannabis. The former Apple marketing professional saw an opportunity to combine them in 2014, just as then-California Lt. Gov. [...]

BEST NEW NONCHOCOLATE Torie & Howard New Milford, Conn. torieandhoward.com / (888) 826-9554 Chewie Fruities These USDA organic-certified fruit chews are available in three sophisticated flavor duos: Italian Tarocco Blood [...]

Brown & Haley's director of product development takes home Candy Industry's 72nd Kettle Award. Her recipe for success lies in the scientific method, spreadsheets and sheer drive. It's an impressive [...]

Jean Thompson is the first to say she knew nothing about making chocolate when she took over Seattle Chocolates 16 years ago. But the former Microsoft corporate communications manager had [...]

ECRM hosted its annual Candy Planning: Christmas & Halloween event Feb. 19-22 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. For those unfamiliar, ECRM events bring together confectioners and candy [...]

Chocolate-filled seaweed wafers, recycled grain snacks, butter toffee worthy of royalty, maple syrup infusions, and a wide diversity of chocolate bars were some of the candy and snack trends spotted [...]

There's something about France and all the food there that's as intoxicating as any wine. It's easy to see how Julia Child could have fallen so passionately in love with [...]

'I've been travelling for four weeks, and this is the first time I've gotten back home for any real length of time,' Katrina Markoff, founder and ceo of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, [...]

Do we need to make chocolate great again? Of course not. It's chocolate; it's already great. It's so great, in fact, that chocolate candy accounted for $11.2 billion--more than half--of [...]

Blink once, there's an acquisition... or two... or three. Blink twice, and there's a reorganization or two. It's been a sugar-charged year in the confectionery industry as multinationals and midsized [...]

3 COLOR COCONUT[R]--Friesinger's Fine Chocolates 3 MUSKETEERS Brand--Mars Chocolate North America 3-D BEARS--FINI SWEETS - Sanchez Cano s.a. 750--AMP ROSE 800 CANDY BAR--Flyer Bars/Paris Chocolates Inc. A Touch of Milk--Flyer [...]

'Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.' --KARL PETZKE, PHOTOGRAPHER Few would argue with Karl's commentary on chocolate. After all, the James Beard award-winning [...]

For the past decade, quietly, subtly but persistently, Americans have become more and more adventurous in their eating habits, be it embracing Korean BBQ, slurping up Asian noodle dishes, discovering [...]

Check out these new products from the ECRM Show! Atkinson Candy Co. Lufkin, Texas / atkinsoncandy.com / (936) 639-2333 Crunchy Peanut Butter Bars Lovers of the classic Crunchy Peanut Butter [...]

NON-CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS BREATH MINTS 1-Bulk; 2-Fund Raising; 3-Packaged; 4-Private Label; 5-Seasonal; 6-Sugar Free Colombina USA (1,3) Florida Candy Factory Inc. (3) Necco, New England Confectionery Co. (1,3) Palmer Candy Co. [...]

3 COLOR COCONUT[R]--Friesinger's Fine Chocolates 3 MUSKETEERS Brand--Mars Chocolate North America 800 CANDY BAR--Flyer Bars/Paris Chocolates Inc. A Touch of Milk--Flyer Bars/Paris Chocolates Inc. Accent[TM]--Delavau Food Partners Accucell Microcrystalline Cellulose--Barrington [...]

ADHESIVE SYSTEMS 1-Cold; 2-Hot Melt Bomarko Inc. (1,2) DJS Enterprises (1,2) AERATORS American Chocolate Mould Co. CHOCOTECH GmbH 38855 Wernigerode, Germany 011493943550610 www.chocotech.de See our advertisement page 19, 65 Franz [...]

Krzysztof Kotas is no stranger to hard work. Nor is he afraid to make a decision or to take a risk. And he certainly has a knack for timing. As [...]

This year's ECRM Everyday & Non-Seasonal is slated for sunny Chandler, Ariz., Sept. 20-23! And Candy Industry Magazine can't wait to try all the new treats debuting at the show! [...]

At one end of the room, grubby brown beans are being dumped unceremoniously down a metal chute. At the room's other end, a cooling tunnel is gently disgorging elegant brown [...]

The London Chocolate Show 2014 Last year we reported from the Paris Salon du Chocolat, an amazing exposition in the world of confection and chocolate. This October we travelled to [...]

3 COLOR COCONUT[R]--Friesinger's Fine Chocolates 3 MUSKETEERS Brand--Mars Chocolate North America 800 CANDY BAR--Flyer Bars/Paris Chocolates Inc. A Touch of Milk--Flyer Bars/Paris Chocolates Inc. Abba-Zaba--Annabelle Candy Co. Inc. Abdallah Candies--Abdallah [...]

Recently, a Financial Times article by Ralph Atkins--in timely seasonal fashion for Easter--suggested that Swiss chocolate, and chocolate consumption in general, may be losing its shine and, dare we say [...]

This year's ECRM Everyday & Non-Seasonal is slated for sunny San Diego, Sept. 14-17! And Candy Industry Magazine can't wait to try all the new treats debuting at the show! [...]

LIMA: Salon del Cacao y Chocolate 2014: The most obvious change in this year's Salon del Cacao y Chocolate was location. In just four years, the South American offshoot of [...]

Flexitarian. White chocolate. Ethical marketing. Retro. The four S's (Snacking, sharing, simplicity, sustainability). Technology. Those are just some of the buzz words and trends that I came across at this [...]

On Tuesday, Feb. 25, I landed in Sarasota, Fla., home to the Ringling Bros. Circus Museum as well as New College of Florida, my son's alma mater. But there wasn't [...]

From l. to r.: Roberto Vanini, Sara Agostoni and Giovanni Agostoni. When the Agostoni family decided to invest $67 million for a greenfield, state-of-the-art facility in Orsenigo, Italy four years [...]

There is no better way to immerse oneself in the cultural history of chocolate than to travel to Tabasco, Mexico for the Festival del Chocolate. It is in that state, [...]

Majlen Fazer loves horses. Learning to ride them at an early age, she eventually progressed to the point of entering show jumping competitions. Not only did she actively participate as [...]

On opening night, Sylvie Douce and Francois Jeantet, founders of the famed Paris Salon du Chocolat were jubilant. Not only was it the 19th year for what has become 'the [...]

Go to http://buyersguide.candyindustry.com for expanded online listings NON-CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS BREATH MINTS 1-Bulk; 2-Fund Raising; 3Packaged; 4-Private Label; 5-Seasonal; 6-Sugar Free American Food Products (1, 4) Colombina USA (1, 3) Ferrero [...]

Oren Young, general manager of Ethel M Chocolates, hopes redesigning the brand's Henderson, Nev., factory store will help Ethel M reach a younger subset of chocolate enthusiasts and connoisseurs. As [...]

In 2013, Annie Roggero and her son Virgilio Rubini were driving from Montreal, Canada to the Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago to exhibit products from their chocolate company ChocoStyle, [...]

Chocolate as a dessert? Perhaps consuming it akin to having a flight of wines? How about bite-sized portions for sharing? Besides, don't those portions help with calorie counting? And let's [...]

Brooklyn has long held an important position in our nation's literary psyche. A hundred years before Mumford and Sons sang 'Oh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in; are you aware the [...]

Gianluca Franzoni, president and founder of Domori, smiles easily when referencing some of the titles that have been associated with his passion for cacao and chocolate. 'In Venezuela, they called [...]

Unlike the doomsday date (Dec. 21, 2012) posed by the cyclic end of the Mayan calendar that some interpreted as the end of the world, the year 2020 has much [...]

BREATH MINTS 1-Bulk; 2-Fund Raising; 3-Packaged; 4-Private Label; 5-Seasonal; 6-Sugar Free American Food Products (1, 4) Colombina USA (1, 3, 4, 6) Ferrero U.S.A. Inc. (3, 5) F & F [...]