Despite the struggling economy, DeMet’s Candy Co. has made plans to open a new, state-of-the-art production facility in Big Flats, N.Y. The 100,000-sq.-ft. facility will house all candy making operations

New Hope, Minn.-based Route 29 Caramels and Sweets has closed its production and warehouse facilities in Perham, reports Louis Hoglund in the Perham Enterprise Bulletin. Citing Mark Kalan, the article

Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Impact Confections has announced the appointment of Jeff Rome as the company’s new president and ceo. Rome attained a great deal of knowledge about the confectionery industry

After seven years of working with Barry Callebaut, ceo Patrick De Maeseneire has decided to leave the company to accept the position of ceo of Adecco SA, a global leader

By Bernard Pacyniak Editor-in-Chief Candy Industry pacyniakb@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Getting creativeOccasionally, all of us come across either concepts or products that make us nod our heads and say, “Yeah, that’s a

Barry Callebaut Brasil S/A, a subsidiary of Barry Callebaut, and Bunge Alimentos, a subsidiary of Bunge Limited, have signed a distribution agreement making Bunge the exclusive distributor of Barry Callebaut’s artisanal chocolate products in the food service market in Brazil.

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified Cargill that it has no objection to the conclusion of an independent expert panel that sucromalt is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use in food.

Louisville, Ky.-based D.D. Williamson has launched its first certified-organic annatto extracts for coloring. The new annatto extracts, which range in hue from yellow to orange, are available in water-soluble and oil-soluble versions, the latter of which can be applied to confectionery coatings.

According to Symrise’s sensory studies with specially trained test panelists, stevia produces off-notes of lingering bitterness and astringency and its sweetness profile often differs from expectation.

Circle Pines, Minn.-based Delkor Systems, a manufacturer of automated end-of-line packaging systems, has qualified as a Machine Builder partner in the Rockwell Automation ParterNetwork program. This partnership will result in packaging machines with increased operational flexibility and lower cost of ownership.