A growing demand for fine flavor and high quality cocoa worldwide will drive growth in the global cocoa market, says a Coherent Market Insights analysis. 

Aldomak, a Scottish private-label producer of fudge, macaroons and oat bars, has acquired The Handmade Meringue Co. brand for an undisclosed sum. 

When I read the headline in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune that Mars Wrigley Confectionery was going to base its U.S. headquarters in Hackettstown and Newark, N.J., I was — to put it mildly — devastated.

Candy Industry Magazine’s Kettle Awards Committee has announced the list of nominees for the industry’s most prestigious award. 

Looking to make a world a “KIND”er place, as well as provide the company with a powerful healthy snacking brand, Mars, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with KIND, a New York City-based manufacturer of healthy snack bars whose recipes include ingredients such as whole nuts, seeds, whole grains and pieces of fruit. 

Mount Franklin Nutritionals, a manufacturer of gummy nutritional supplements, organic gummies and fruit snacks and a subsidiary of El Paso, Texas-based Mount Franklin Foods, says its new 100,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Sumter, S.C., is primed to serve the “rapidly growing,” $2.7-billion nutraceuticals industry.

According to a survey by OnePoll, which was sponsored by Stork US, nearly 63 percent of Americans say they don’t show appreciation because they simply forget, or their mind is focused on other things. Given that tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I’m thinking most of us will remember to give and say thanks.