Chocolate Bars

At the NACS show in Atlanta, Hershey showed off its queue, where shoppers can 'relax' enough to browse and impulse-buy.

Hershey embracing fresh approach to modern retail challenges

By Kristine Sherred

Stand-up packaging, consumer-driven innovation and loyalty data are upending the candy aisle and checkout area. We talked with two Hershey execs at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) show to understand how one of the world’s most beloved...

The average Briton eats over 150 chocolate bars a year, but is that cause for demonisation?

Caobisco ‘concerned’ about chocolate detox campaign

By Niamh Michail

Caobisco says it is ‘concerned’ about the British Heart Foundation’s ‘chocolate detox’ campaign, which encourages people to stop eating chocolate for a month to raise money and awareness for heart research.

Chocolate is typically displayed horizontally on store shelves. Cadbury's new flow pack hopes to give new display options. Photo Credit: Flickr - mikecogh

Cadbury rethinks flow wrap to encourage impulse buying

By Oliver Nieburg

Kraft-owned chocolate maker Cadbury has filed an international patent for a redesigned flow wrap package that it claims will allow chocolate bars to be displayed closer to sales counters to encourage impulse buys.

A bar is born

A bar is born

Four new chocolate bars from US-based Endangered Species Chocolate
Company were launched last week at the Natural Food Products Expo
West in California.