The candy sold out in 10 days after its release last spring at the brand’s Chocolatory in Melbourne, and now fans can find it ‘for a limited time’ throughout the country.
KitKat Japan has launched more than 350 new KitKat flavours over the past 45 years, and Nestlé Japan, the manufacturer of KitKat in Japan, has pledged to maintain its innovation focus.
The 15th annual general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) closed today, with over 850 representatives of the global palm oil and food industry agreeing to new certification standards for sustainable palm oil.
Ruby chocolate, the fourth type of chocolate adding to milk, white and dark varieties, has caused worldwide sensation since Barry Callebaut first unveiled it in Shanghai, China, last year.
Ferrara will start producing revamped Butterfinger by the end of this month and shipping the products to the US market early next year, ConfectioneryNews learned at the recent NACS Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Nestlé has ceased its production of Marella Jubes in Australia, which is part of Allen’s confectionery line, after the brand experienced a declining consumer demand.
Nestlé Australia has launched a limited edition KitKat Gold that contains the traditional wafer fingers covered in white-colored caramelized chocolate.
New promotion, "Forming Cocoa Pruners and Graders", will help cocoa farmers to manage crops, receive instruction on best practices, and plant physiology.
Court of Justice of the European Union gets last word in KitKat shape dispute after Nestlé failed to to prove that the shape of the bar has become distinctive of their goods across the EU.
Ferrero India has revealed its plans to build a new product portfolio for the mass market in India, with the firm assessing opportunities for some of the 20 confectionery brands it acquired from the US unit of Nestle at the start of the year.
The initiative has received over 400 start-up applications so far and launched 12 Projects to enable Nestlé to improve the environmental impact of its work by partnering with start-ups with ‘tech-for-good solutions’
Candy and snacks company Hsu Fu Chi has struck a deal with China’s second largest e-commerce channel JD.com to improve its logistical efficiency by building an 'unbounded plant' in South China.
Ferrero is set to overhaul the recipes of Butterfinger and Crunch bars after creating a new business unit by merging its recently acquired Ferrara and Nestlé’s US candy portfolio later this year.
Mondelēz, Cargill, Nestlé and Tony’s Chocolonely will discuss progress and challenges in implementing Child Labor Monitoring & Remediation Systems (CLMRS) in cocoa communities at a panel during the World Cocoa Conference.
A California Superior Court judge has approved a settlement resolving claims over whether certain levels of lead and cadmium in chocolate require warning labels under California’s Prop 65 law.
Nestlé UK will introduce a range of ‘more premium’ KitKat Senses chocolate in three flavors: hazelnut, double chocolate and salted caramel, later this month.
Nestlé USA faces a fresh class action lawsuit in the US for allegedly failing to disclose its chocolate brands may use cocoa from unlawful child or slave labor.
Nestlé has sold its US candy business ($924m in 2016 sales), which includes Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Raisinets, to Nutella maker Ferrero for $2.8bn in cash.
Nestlé’s child labor prevention system in its Cocoa Plan will cover around half of the company’s supply by 2020, but full scale up may never be possible, says its public affairs director.
Hershey has refused to comment on speculation it was among the US companies submitting an initial bid on Nestlé’s US chocolate and candy business last week.
Butterfinger maker Nestlé refuses to speculate if it will offload its challenged US confectionery business, but says it is “no stranger” to portfolio trimming.
Chocolate companies are coming under increasing scrutiny to publish third-party verified impacts on cocoa sustainability efforts, including taxes paid in origin countries.
Nestlé’s confectionery business has posted flat real internal growth in the first quarter 2016 triggered by an economic slowdown in Brazil and an earlier Chinese New Year.
A free-to-attend ProSweets panel discussion featuring Mondelēz and Nestlé will assess how chocolate makers can develop and reformulate products to comply with self-imposed nutrition guidelines.
KitKat maker Nestlé reports progress in reducing sugar across its confectionery portfolio but won’t reformulate to a lower threshold until sugar’s link to obesity and type 2 diabetes is substantiated.