News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Last year was not one of the best for sales of chocolate, with political instability in the Middle East, a weak global economy, lower tourist numbers in the Far East as a result of SARS and the hottest European summer in decades all contributing to...
Millions of dollars in investment poured into a new technology may pay off for US food manufacturer Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings. Targeting the low-fat market, the company said that it has developed a revolutionary "slow churned" method of making...
A large proportion of Russian sugar processors have experienced recession over the last year - so says a survey of leading industry figures. However, the abolition of import taxes on imported raw sugar might make things easier in the year ahead.