Articles by Alyse Thompson

The 2,400-sq.-ft. store, located at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive, now features an open floor plan and simple, elegant décor meant to draw new and repeat customers to the iconic Chicago brand, owned by 1-800-Flowers.

Clasen Quality Coatings, Inc., has changed its name to Clasen Quality Chocolate, Inc. to reflect the Madison, Wis.-based company’s push into the chocolate sector.

Edible Arrangements, known for creating fresh-cut fruit arrangements for order, has expanded into the boxed chocolate market with its newest brand, Edible Chocolate.

Published in the journal Appetite, research by Felipe Reinoso Carvalho, Janice Wang, Raymond van Ee, Dominique Persoone and Charles Spence suggests music may affect the way listeners taste chocolate, particularly its perceived “creaminess.”

Holiday retail sales are expected to be especially bright this season, thanks, in part, to some Americans getting a head start on shopping, a new survey sponsored by the National Retail Federation (NRF) found.

Mondelez International has joined forces with the Fairtrade Foundation to extend the snack and confectionery giant’s Cocoa Life sustainability program to Cadbury-branded products.

Ruxton Chocolates, the Baltimore-based manufacturer of Mary Sue Easter Eggs, has broken ground on a new 100,444-sq.-ft. facility in the city’s suburbs.

Swiss cocoa and chocolate producer Barry Callebaut Group has announced plans to expand its California production facility following a string of investments in Asia.