Blissful chocolateThe Company: The Hershey Company, Hershey, Pa. The Product: Bliss Chocolate The Hook: Hershey’s celebrated the introduction of its bite-sized Bliss Chocolate by hosting 10,000 chocolate parties all over

It’s rather ironic in a way. Here’s the head of Nestlé chocolate operations telling the world that the company needs to increase its percentage of premium chocolate sales.   Yet,

Gary Kroot, plant director of Mars Snackfood's Elizabethtown, Pa. plant, proudly stands behind a high-speed, high-volume moulding line producing Dove chocolates.

RCI Regional docks in BaltimoreFrom April 9-12, 2008, confectioners joined from around the country at the Retail Confectioners International Spring Regional event held in Baltimore, Md. And what better way

Cargill builds its first sugar refineryCargill has announced the construction of its first sugar refinery in the U.S. in order to follow the company’s plan to be a “one-stop sweetener

Tom Bowman joins The Warrell CorporationConfectionery and snack manufacturer, The Warrell Corporation, welcomes Tom Bowman as Pennsylvania Dutch Candies director of sales and marketing. Bowman will be responsible for marketing

Family-owned Mars Inc. and Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. have signed an agreement to merge companies. The deal, in which Mars purchased Wrigley for nearly $23 billion, will make Mars

I certainly didn’t expect it. And I would venture that most confectionery professionals, unless they had an inside track within Mars Snackfood’s executive sanctum, knew that the Hackettstown, N.J.-based candy

Manufacturing company MultiZEN Foods, based in Hong Kong, China, has announced the construction of a new chocolate factory in Nantong, China. Phase one is a two-story plant that is 250,000-sq.-ft.

Dynamic Confections, co-owned by Taz Murray and Dave Taiclet, collected $2 million from Park City private equity company Dolphin Capital to expand its product line and candy brands. Dynamic, a