News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
The European Commission will consider boosting the availability of sugar at its next tonnage tender meeting on August 25 after sharp rises in prices and calls from food manufacturers for it to increase sugar quotas or abandon them.
A UK confectionery manufacturer has been fined after part of a worker’s finger was cut off by a sweet making machine.
The economic downturn has put the brakes on the development of the Russian confectionery market and led to subdued growth for Nestlé in Russia in the first half of 2011, according to the company.