Rold Gold hard sourdough pretzels are made using classic sourdough ingredients, but they are larger and crunchier than regular Rold Gold varieties.

Pita Pretzel Squares are puffed pita pretzels that are slow baked, sprinkled with sea salt and then smothered in creamy milk chocolate. Similar to other Bachman products, this all-natural snack delivers zero trans fat and doesn’t contains no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. 

Solid Easter Buddies R.M. Palmer Co.  West Reading, Pa. www.rmpalmer.com 1-610-372-8971    These delicious 3-oz. chocolate flavored characters include one of two different bunnies and two of his buddies . . . a

Dubbed “the delicious cookie without the guilt,” BranTreats are thin, all-natural cookies that are made with 30% oat bran and blend almonds, raisins and cinnamon into a perfect-for-breakfast snack. 

Optimum Nutrition Whey Crisp Bars Optimum Nutrition, Aurora, Ill. www.optimumbars.com 1-630-236-0097  Optimum Nutrition’s new 100% Whey Crisp Bars are the only all-whey protein bars to be made with crisps and contain 25

Made with plant sterols and all-natural ingredients, Corazonas Oatmeal Squares are designed to help lower cholesterol.

Funley’s Delicious’ STIX IN THE MUD combine 100% natural clusters of crunch cookie bits in pure chocolate to create a premium, all-natural snack that’s tasty, but without any preservatives, trans fat, high fructose corn syrup or “artificial anything.” 

Call him a “numbers” man. Adello Crippa doesn’t shy away from the label. Rather, he embraces it. In fact, there’s not much the general manager and chief financial officer of ICAM shies away from

Forest Park, Ill.-based Ferrara Pan Candy Co. has appointed Hans Becher as its vice president of seasonal sales. Becher, a confectionery industry veteran, started his career at Pathmark in 1974.

Although there will not be any ProSweets exhibit during the upcoming International Sweets and Biscuits Fair (ISM), which will be held in Cologne Jan. 30 – Feb. 1 next year, organizers have scheduled the first topic-specific conference during the famed confectionery exposition.