The expansion, announced in April, will make the facility the largest innovation hub for Mars Wrigley globally.

With this expanded capability, Chicago will become Mars Wrigley’s largest innovation hub in the world.

Customers will be greeted by an 11-ft. Ferris Wheel candy display, a lollipop garden made with more than 1,000 lollipops, and a Chicago skyline made entirely of jelly beans.

Barry Callebaut’s Americas headquarters celebrated 15 years in Chicago this month, alongside showcasing its remodeled Chocolate Academy and offices.

Blommer will begin hosting customers at its new R&D Applications Lab in Chicago's Merchandise Mart in February.

Amped Kitchens held a ribbon-cutting on October 14, 2021 at its new 117,000-square-foot, multi-tenant, commercial kitchen complex in Chicago's Belmont-Cragin neighborhood.

Fannie May, which was acquired by Ferrero Group in 2017, has refreshed several of its 55 stores and totally remodeled others, including locations in the Chicago suburbs of Park Ridge, La Grange and Aurora.

Puratos has opened an innovation center in Chicago, the company’s sixth innovation center in the U.S.

Puratos has opened an innovation center in Chicago, the company’s sixth innovation center in the U.S.

The French Pastry School of Robert Morris University Illinois has established a new charitable foundation to provide scholarships to students in its full-time pastry and baking, cake, and bread programs.