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Kids and Candy: What makes sense?

February 6, 2013

I love the expression, “the elephant in the room.” It’s a wonderful idiom that dramatically explains a subject no one is willing to talk about.

Super Bowl Sunday should be prime time for candy companies

The confectionery industry is missing out on some serious game-day profits.

Crystal Lindell

January 30, 2013

About 45% of NFL fans are women. That’s almost half!

'Imagining' a chocolate company: Founder combines musical nostalgia with candy

"The challenge," Mitchell Koulouris says, "is how to connect the chocolate back to the song." To date, Koulouris has formulated 200 recipes tied to songs.

Bernie Pacyniak

January 23, 2013

About two years ago, the idea began to build to a crescendo: Why not integrate everyone’s affinity for songs with their love of chocolate?

Cavorting with chocolate: How Skinny Cow lured me into their social media world

A self-analysis quiz, lots of pink and a coupon were enough to hook Managing Editor Crystal Lindell

Crystal Lindell

January 16, 2013

Things got interesting though when the survey also cleverly worked in some of my personal Facebook data.

Terroir and tastings: Pairing wine and chocolate has never been so delicious

Editor-in-chief Bernie Pacyniak travels to Italy and Washington state to discover some wonderful wine and chocolate pairings

Bernie Pacyniak

January 9, 2013

Recent trips have —and I’m truly grateful for this — further enlightened me about wine and its wonderful connection to confections.

Law banning candy tobacco goes too far

Confectionery alternatives to smoking victims of overzealous politicians.

Crystal Lindell

January 2, 2013

I have a confession to make. I once was a smoker — of candy cigarettes. While I’ve never actually lit up a square, I spent my youth puffing away whole packs of chalk-candy cigarettes (sometime two packs) in as little as an afternoon.

Dragons, snakes and lemmings: A look back on 2012, and onto 2013

The year of the snake to bring innovation more private label, and more chocolate

Bernie Pacyniak

December 20, 2012

In our sweeter-than-most confectionery industry, I’d say that most companies, be they large or small, fared fairly decently. I recognize that many of you are already wondering what kind of Kool-Aid I’m sipping while writing this.