IndexBox noted the market reached $17.6 billion in 2016, up $819 million — or 5 percent — from 2015. This figure reflects total revenue of producers and importers and excludes logistics costs, retail marketing costs and retailers’ margins.

Popchip’s peanut butter-based Nutter Puffs take everything snackers love about peanut butter and pack it into one perfectly snackable puff.

Anaheim, Calif.-based Nellson Nutraceutical, LLC, a leading North American formulator and manufacturer of branded and private-label nutritional bar and functional powder products, officially debuted its new $70-million nutrition bar manufacturing plant in Ontario, Calif. today. 

In celebration of the country’s strong connection to chocolate, workforce training firm Syntra West will sponsor Chocolate University Belgium, a weeklong chocolate training program in Bruges. 

Hammond’s Brands has introduced a line of 3-oz. vertical-tablet Belgian chocolate bars, which are a larger than Hammond’s existing 2.25-oz. chocolate bars.

It's a wild, wonderful and at times wacky world of flavor fusion, alternative sweetening and exotic experimentation for confectioners and flavor technologists.

Peter Boone, Barry Callebaut’s new chief in the Americas, shares his thoughts on Forever Chocolate progress, premiumization, Ruby chocolate, Millennials and telling a good story — about chocolate.

OCHO Candy, maker of unique organic chocolate bars, has taken a new twist on a lunchtime favorite.

Barry Callebaut has developed a Ruby chocolate product under its Callebaut brand for artisan chocolatiers and pastry chefs.

TasteTV and the International Chocolate Salon have announced their list of 2018 winners for the title of “Best Chocolatiers and Confectioners in America.”