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Nestlé

Nestlé will find you

Latest promotion locates prize winners with GPS

August 22, 2012

“We’ll find you” offers shoppers a chance to win £10,000 if the candy they buy is one of six candy bars with a GPS tracking device in them.

Jelly Belly

Jelly Belly names new plant manager

Danny Williams to run North Chicago facility

Crystal Lindell

August 22, 2012

Jelly Belly Candy Co.’s newest North Chicago, Ill. plant manager most recently worked for DeMets Candy, and also has worked for Impact Confectioners, Nestlé and Mars.

Milking profits

Tenn.-based Weigel’s Farm Stores. Inc., may be famous for its dairy aisle, but Chairman Bill Weigel believes candy displays sweeten the cash register ring.

Crystal Lindell

August 21, 2012

Bill Weigel knows that many gas stations are basically man caves, epitomized by their poorly lit sales floor, barely maintained bathrooms and their emphasis on beer and cigarettes.

Multi-functional uses continue to expand

Aside from using starches for operational benefits, candy technologists see opportunities by addressing market niches.

Alyse Thompson

August 21, 2012

If creating candy is like juggling, then for many confectioners, starches are like a third hand.

In capturing the 67th Kettle Award, self-proclaimed “shy guy” R. Anthony Sweet, chairman of the Sweet Candy Co., receives recognition for his lifelong dedication to the family business and the industry in general.

Bernie Pacyniak

August 21, 2012

R. Anthony, aka “Tony” Sweet never dreamed of being a Kettle Award recipient.

Choice chocolate from the Aloha State

Dylan Butterbaugh’s Manoa Chocolate offers premium, sustainable sweets

Alyse Thompson

August 21, 2012

Known for its golden pineapples, white sand beaches and righteous surfing, Hawaii can now — thanks to Dylan Butterbaugh — add fine chocolate to its “reasons to visit” list.

Chocolate Festival coming to Chicago

Event to feature dual trade and consumer shows

Crystal Lindell

August 15, 2012

The Chicago Chocolate Festival, a new dual consumer and trade-show event dedicated entirely to the chocolate industry, is slated for Nov. 16-18 at the city’s Navy Pier.

Milky Way French Vanilla and Caramel Bar

Mars, Inc.

August 15, 2012

This bar combines caramel, French vanilla-flavored nougat and milk chocolate.

Fruit juice could halve fat in chocolate

Research shows ingredient doesn’t change chocolate’s texture

Crystal Lindell

August 15, 2012

University of Warwick chemists in Coventry, UK used tiny droplets of orange and cranberry juice to replace the cocoa butter and milk fats that go into chocolate bars.