The M&M’s maker Mars will take a minority stake in KIND Snacks, a deal that aims to bring KIND's nutrition bars and granola products onto the global stage.
Non-chocolate confectionery grew at a faster rate than chocolate in the US for the first half of 2017, driven in part by one strongly performing brand.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and United Nations Environment Project have joined forces to help promote sustainable practices among smallholders producing palm oil as the environmental group sharpens its focus on smallholder farmers.
The ‘free-from’ phenomenon is reaching a tipping point. Originally born out of dietary necessity, it’s now taken a global grip with hyper-health conscious consumers, who love to experiment with new food and drinks that deliver all of the good stuff free...
Cocoa producer organizations fear there is a growing number of so-called ‘fake cooperatives’, which are beholden to chocolate companies and cocoa traders that provide financial assistance.
South Korean giant Lotte Confectionery has fully acquired Havmor Ice Cream Ltd in India for Rs1,020 crore (about US$157.9m), entering the ice cream snacks segment as well as expanding its business network across India.
Competition law can actually hinder industry efforts to boost food security by limiting collaboration, according to a new report from the UK’s Fairtrade Foundation.
Swedish supplier Bayn Europe claims oat oil is an alternative, clean label emulsifier providing better yield stress in sugar-reduced chocolate than polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) and soy lecithin.
Food firms need to set aside traditional rivalries and collaborate to meet the health, environmental and economic objectives of the United Nation’s Sustainability Goals, insists one of Mars' most senior execs.
Flavor giant Firmenich recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant for encapsulated flavors in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which will serve as a center of excellence for encapsulated technologies in Latin America.
Fourteen Mondelēz employees across the global have finished their ‘Joy Ambassadors Program’ in Ghana, gaining a firsthand understanding of ‘the challenges and opportunities in securing a sustainable cocoa supply.’
Allulose-sweetened chocolate startup Allulite Nutrition debuted its products at the FNCE (Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo) show recently in Chicago, and it hopes to become a $1bn brand in the next few years for Hershey to acquire.
New Zealand's advertising regulator has clashed with academics over a study that concluded advertising rules are ineffective in protecting children from exposure to unhealthy food marketing on television.
There are multiple holes in a new proposed class action complaint filed vs Mondelez over sugar levels in its belVita range, say attorneys. However, the recent shift away from fat to sugar as public enemy #1 has clearly emboldened the plaintiff’s bar.
TricorBraun packaging firm has acquired Taipak, a flexible packaging provider based in Canada – its first foray into flexible packaging in its 100-year history.
Half of British consumers would rather give up chocolate than cheese when asked if they had to “choose between never being able to eat cheese again or never being able to eat chocolate again,” according to new research by Mintel.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) has approved Mars Wrigley a $3.15m annual tax credit package over 10 years for bringing 483 jobs to the state.
tna has opened TNA Solutions service support centre in Shanghai, China, and set up a Chinese website for its brochures, product sell sheets, demo videos, technical white papers and blogs.
Mars Wrigley Confectionery says it has achieved income and yield increases for Indian mint farmers in the first year of a five-year sustainability program.
Hershey took the largest share of Amazon’s candy purchases in October this year compared to Mondelēz-owned Sour Patch Kids, Mars’ Skittles and Starburst, and Perfetti Van Melle’s Airheads, according to a new report from Edison Trends.
Cocoa & Forests Initiative members have disclosed plans for ending cocoa-driven deforestation, in pledges made at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23).
Mondelēz was in a strong legal position to stop Poundland’s Twin Peaks from hitting shelves, but the pound store ended up securing a good deal revealing its rising status, says a legal expert.
With an oat protein acquisition and mycoprotein partnership already under its belt, Naturex is now working on a new “high-end, functional” protein made from its leftover plant-based biomass to be launched next year. Its three-pronged strategy for growth...
Hershey’s CEO Michele Buck recently said the company is ‘very open to mergers and acquisitions,’ and sees them playing ‘a key role’ in Hershey’s growth agenda.
Chocolate companies should rethink cocoa sustainability programs to reverse low adoption rates for training and technology, says The Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Cocoa Research.
Mr Kipling maker Premier Foods has posted a strong performance in the second quarter, partly driven by the licence renewal to produce Cadbury-branded cakes.
The great, great, great grandson of Cadbury’s founder, James Cadbury, has developed an avocado chocolate bar prior to this year’s holiday season for vegan consumers.
‘Every year at the end of August, a murmur goes through the land, because that’s when they are back on the shelves of German supermarkets: gingerbread, gingerbread biscuits, spiced biscuits, and the rest. And again, consumers are surprised that food retailers...