In Lindt & Sprüngli’s 2008 financial report, the company reported it would reduce the number of U.S. Lindt boutiques in shopping malls over the next few months and focus on

After purchasing 12 companies in the last nine years, Grupo Nacional de Chocolates SA is at it again. According to an article by James Attwood on Bloomberg.com, the company is

According to The Mainichi Daily News, Lotte Holdings Co. is negotiating to acquire Barry Callebaut’s consumer chocolate division, Stollwerck, through a joint company to be set up with Natra. The

Mastix Medica, a manufacturer of tableted functional food and nutritional supplement products, has acquired the private label division and pressed tablet factory of Koko’s Confectionery & Novelty Co., which currently

Koko’s Confectionery & Novelty will now focus on manufacturing edible novelties for the confectionery industry. “While our private label division is very strong, we realized that in order to provide

There’s been an awful amount of news crossing my computer screen these days - the emphasis on awful - everything from Salmonella recalls and plant consolidations to bankruptcy rumors and layoffs.

This time, the Salmonella organism is striking pistachios instead of peanuts. But consumers shouldn’t compare the two.

The international trade fair show that caters to Russia and former CIS countries had more than its share of confectionery suppliers at Moscow’s ZAO Expocenter.

The PMCA will hold its 63rd annual production conference on April 27-29 in Hershey, Pa.

By Bernard Pacyniak Editor-in-Chief Candy Industry pacyniakb@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Not lost in translationAll of us have been urged at one point or another to think “outside the box!” Although most of