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Editors Crystal Lindell and Alyse Thompson share their insights on the latest industry news, product trends and marketing plans.

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Bernie Pacyniak

Crystal Lindell

Alyse Thompson

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Crystal Lindell

Allow me to (re)introduce myself

Former Managing Editor Crystal Lindell returns to lead Candy Industry after Bernie Pacyniak's retirement.
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Crystal Lindell
June 27, 2018

As former managing editor of Candy Industry Magazine, Crystal Lindell has been working on sister publication Food Engineering for the last couple years, hoping and praying she would eventually get back to the best job in the world. And now, finally, here she is — the new editor of Candy Industry. 


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Thanks for the memories

Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak retires this month after 17 years with Candy Industry Magazine.
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Bernie Pacyniak
June 20, 2018

Why is Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak going down this memory lane? Pacyniak, who served Candy Industry Magazine for 17 years, is retiring June 29.


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Start preparing Amazon candy offerings now to win big this Halloween

Ecommerce data firm One Click Retail says consumers buy Halloween candy early, in bulk.
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Alyse Thompson
June 13, 2018

Summer doesn’t officially begin for another week, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about Halloween.


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Big-hearted works in Big Sky Country

Patrick Murnane of Murnane Cos. shows Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak efforts of Montana-based Hope Ranch International.
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Bernie Pacyniak
June 6, 2018

Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak recently learned about the efforts of Hope Ranch International, a faith-based organization serving needy and impoverished families, while having lunch with Patrick Murnane of Murnane Cos. A visit to the Montana-based ranch quickly followed.


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GUEST COLUMN: Rock your sweet business in Cleveland with RCI

RCI's 2018 Annual Convention & Industry Expo features focus on customer experience.
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Angie Burlison
May 30, 2018

At this year’s Annual Convention & Industry Expo, RCI’s focus is presenting retail candy makers and chocolatiers with ideas and inspiration that translate into actionable strategies for creating unique and memorable experiences for their customers.


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Sweets and Snacks 2018

Dispatches from Candyland

Sweets & Snacks Expo kicks off at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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Alyse Thompson
May 23, 2018

This is Associate Editor Alyse Thompson's second Sweets & Snacks Expo, but it already feels like old hat. Getting around was a breeze, and she enjoyed catching up with manufacturers, suppliers, sales people and marketers she's gotten to know over the last couple years.


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Do chocolate bars come from brown cows?

Informing chocolate consumers about growing process, social responsibility imperative to industry's success.
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Bernie Pacyniak
May 16, 2018

Those of us who work in and with the industry sometimes forget that the outside world doesn’t necessarily know what we know, particularly when it comes to chocolate.


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GUEST COLUMN: Does chewing gum 'unmaketh man?' Yes, says Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky

Popularity of — and aversion to — chewing gum dates back to World War I, Contributor Curtis Vreeland notes.
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Curtis Vreeland
May 9, 2018

American soldiers used chewing gum to quench thirst and reserve water supplies in World War I, but as its popularity spread through Europe, so did aversion to it. Among its detractors was Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Contributor Curtis Vreeland tells the story in an excerpt from "Candy Goes to War."


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Seeing cacao at the source

Alfred Ritter offers Candy Industry opportunity to see cacao growing operation in Nicaragua.
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Alyse Thompson
May 2, 2018

In February, Associate Editor Alyse Thompson visited Finca El Cacao, a 2,500-hectare cocoa plantation in Nicaragua owned and operated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. The company, eager to open up its supply chain and highlight its progress in the Central American country, brought Alyse and German journalists to the plantation to show them how they do things.


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So what the heck is a chocolate geode?

Professor Peter Greweling shows off chocolate creations at PMCA annual production conference.
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Bernie Pacyniak
April 25, 2018

When Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak heard that CIA's Peter Greweling, professor of baking and pastry arts, would demonstrate the art of creating edible geodes out of chocolate and naturally-formed sugar crystals at PMCA’s production conference earlier this month, he had to reacquaint himself with what a geode is.


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