Now, eating chocolate can help give other people the chance to eat.

CEO and President John Bilbrey announced that The Hershey Co. made “good progress against our third-quarter objectives as net sales, retail takeaway and market share trends improved versus the first half of the year.”

The U.S. confectionery market is expected to see about $6 billion in increased sales in the next five years, and premium products are driving the growth. But the industry is growing faster globally than it is domestically and commodity costs are impacting costs from the farm to the finished product.

U.S. sugar policy reform took another blow this week, as the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it has initialed draft agreements with the Mexican government and Mexican sugar exporters.

Santa will have a mixed, albeit slightly larger, bag of goodies for everyone this year.

What if the candles were also the dessert? Two and a half years ago, Tara Johnson formed Yum-Wick Inc., which sells her original chocolate candles.

Free chocolate? It sounds like a dream, but in Cleveland every weekend through December 20, it will be reality.

For the first time, we have taken a subset of the Top 100 and encapsulated it into the North American Sweet 60 confectionery companies.

The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI) is preparing for a record-breaking four days at the PACK EXPO International and the debut of the Pharma EXPO Nov. 2-5.