For Rick LaRue, v.p. of international sales for The Promotion in Motion Companies, Inc., the annual CONFITEXPO event in Mexico helps his company expand their presence in Latin America.

“Trick or treat, give me something chocolate to eat.” That’s what nearly three-fourths (72 percent) of Americans are saying this Halloween.

Clif Bar & Co., is planning to build a new state-of-the-art bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho, where the company will make CLIF Bars and CLIF Kid Zbars.

A SweetWorks employee recently got the chance to meet with President of Poland and extend a pretty “sweet” gift.

The new TCHO Pairings bar take common flavors and turn them into extraordinary chocolate bars.

Keep America Beautiful (KAB) honored the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. with its 2013 Vision for America Award.

Exhibitors range from chocolate leaders such as Barry Callebaut and Valrhona to smaller artisan wholesalers such as vegan confections from Desiderio Chocolates and the “Gremlins” from Betty Jane Candies.

Carl Goldenberg, the third-generation patriarch of Goldenberg Candy Co., passed away on Monday, Oct. 14. The 85-year-old candy maker had battled prostate cancer for the past 17 years.

“These results demonstrate how we have been able to improve cocoa yields and quality, as well as the livelihoods of the farmers and their communities,“ says Grow Cocoa’s program director, Kevin Wilkins.