News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Plant closures and 'competitive pressures?saw profits slide for US sugar giant Imperial Sugar despite a rise in operating income for the first quarter. Global sugar surplus keeps the prices down and competition up.
War and disease have marked volatile prices for cocoa in the past three years, peaking at 17 year highs in 2002 when the Ivory Coast - source of two fifths of the world cocoa crop - endured civil war. Research into genomes could contribute to stable...
A small Canadian milling company has found a novel way of creating more value from its by-products - by tapping into the growing craze for low carbohydrate products made popular by the Atkins Diet.
The Romanian chocolate sector looks set to become increasingly competitive as the third largest player, Kandia, prepares to finalise a merger with Excelent - a move that will create the leading producer on the market.
This year's Foodex Meatex exhibition - which the organisers believe could be the most successful yet - promises to showcase the latest innovations in meat processing. A quick look at a couple of planned product launches suggests that a wide variety of...