Once the mystery and magic of chocolate gets into your blood, it’s hard to escape from it. Just ask Angela and David Emerson who run Amarah’s Chocolate Co., a candy/gift store at the Taft Corners Shopping Center in Williston, Vt.

Chocolaterie Guylian, makers of the famed Guylian Sea Shell chocolates, will invest €6.8 million ($7.6 million) this year to expand its production capabilities at its facility in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.

Just as Maria Sharapova's love of gummies prompted her to establish the Sugarpova line of sweets, so to it was with chocolate.

Owner Craig Leva, with the help of the NCA, had invited the congressman for a personal tour and subsequent get-together with plant employees, guests and constituents at the company’s theatre room.

Find out which companies made the list of the Top 100 confectionery companies in the world.

This spring the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Food Science will host a course titled, "Enhanced Confections: The ‘How To’ of Functional Confections."

The 2015 European Candy Kettle Club Award recipient, Jean-Luc Grisot of Valrhona, believes that intense and personal involvement on all fronts — be it in the fields, in the lab, in the plant or with the customer — results in better chocolate and a better company.

Some people just have a way of winning you over immediately. They have that je ne sais quoi that’s welcoming, open, energetic and inspiring. Jean-Luc Grisot is one such person

More than 1,500 exhibitors from around 70 countries are expected to participate at this year’s ISM again, the world's most important trade fair for sweets and snacks held Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.