All Natural Q.bel Wafer Rolls Q.bel Foods LLC, Nyack, N.Y. www.qbelfoods.com1-845-358-1475 All four varieties - Peanut Butter with Milk Chocolate, Milk Chocolate (36% cacao), Dark Chocolate (52% cacao) and new Deep Dark

For suppliers of bases for chewing gum brands worldwide, innovation is on the upswing.

“Junior candy buyers” from the Boys & Girls Club of Las Vegas selected their favorite confections from those submitted by exhibitors at ECRM’s Candy Annual Planning Event last month, naming three winners in the 2010 Kid’s Candy Choice awards.

Nestlé Confections and Snacks debuted its first WONKA retail shop last week in New York City. 

Teams competed in the American Association of Candy Technologists Iron Chef competition held in Chicago on Sept. 24

At the American Association of Candy Technologists’ (AACT) 2010 Technical Seminar, held late last month in Lincolnshire, Ill., Robert Boutin, principal and president of Skokie, Ill.-based Knechtel, Inc., was presented with the association’s highest honor: the Stroud Jordan award. 

Moreno Roncato has been named managing director of Milan-based Carle & Montanari SpA by the Sacmi Group, sole shareholder of the company. 

After honing her art amongst the masters in Europe, chocolatier Mona Keady serves up pure pleasure to chocolate lovers in California.

By Bernard Pacyniak Editor-in-Chief Candy Industry pacyniakb@bnpmedia.com getting fresh: Sweet Samba! What's going on in Brazil?For those of you who follow the global political scene, you might be thinking that

It's a long way form the world of dot.coms and metrics/analytics, but William Dean Brown has found his true calling--creating edible masterpieces.