Lee Hartman, director of sales for Printpack and a 33-year veteran of the confectionery industry, will retire on March 23. 

Mars Canada has expanded its Newmarket, Ontario-based facility for the manufacturing and packaging of Maltesers, milk chocolate-coated malt balls.

Australian food processing and packaging supplier tna Solutions has acquired NID, an Australian starch moulding equipment manufacturer, moving tna one step closer to being a leading single-source supplier for the confectionery industry.

Nonetheless, Today's Jeff Rosen ―who leads us to believe he’s quite a candy lover ―goes on a movie house shopping spree in the segment, purchasing Nestlé and Just Born products. He then returns to the studio and carefully stands  up the boxes, cutting open a flap in each one to show the amount of white space there is before one sees actual candy.

YumEarth, a 10-year-old organic and natural candy brand, is getting a new, more consistent look.