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Products we loved at the 2019 ECRM Everyday and Summer Seasonal session

Program held in August at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.

February 14, 2020

ECRM events bring together candy makers and retail buyers for meetings that resemble speed dating, since they have just 10 or 20 minutes at each appointment.

Schimpff's Confectionery blends tradition and innovation

Indiana business run by Schimpff family for 127 years

December 11, 2018

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Located in the historic district of Jeffersonville, Indiana, visitors find a unique manufacturing confectionery, retail candy store, soda fountain, lunchroom, museum and demonstration area all rolled into one.

Achieving the 'best' caramel by formulation, processing

Adjusting caramel components can help manufacturers meet production, flavor needs.

Randy Hofberger

July 17, 2018

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There are many different types and styles of caramel and just as many visions of what is the "best" caramel.

Chocolat Uzma Sharif: Perseverance, pragmatism pay off.

Chocolat Uzma Sharif’s bright packaging and Pakistani background put a cultural spin on traditional chocolates.

Crystal Lindell

Abigail Watt

March 11, 2015

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Life in the kitchen is tough, and if 17 years in the culinary industry has taught chef-turned-chocolatier Uzma Sharif anything, it’s that being even tougher is key.

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Sweethearts in Sweets: Which came first, the candy or the couple?

A look at couples running candy companies, and how they grow their love-powered business.

Susie Wyshak

February 11, 2015

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For couples like then-30-year old Baci candy inventor Luisa Spagnoli and young Giovanni Buitoni, it wasn't just their love of chocolate they had in common — it was their love. Legend has it that the two shared love notes fanning forbidden flames in the early 1900s.

Childhood Dreams Evolve Into ‘Duchess Of Chocolate’ Title

After raising a family of four, chocolatier pursues life’s work and eventually opens retail business.

Bernie Pacyniak

October 17, 2014

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For Dorinda Vance, it started early on in life. As a 12 year-old girl, she learned to make craveinducing, chocolate-covered cherries.

Life’s So Sweet: A N.Y. State Candy that's scripted to succeed

Couple provides extraordinary case history for opening up a chocolate shop.

Bernie Pacyniak

May 23, 2014

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It could be the basis for a Hallmark Channel film: Mother and daughter begin making confections and cookies for family and friends together when the daughter’s eight.The daughter continues to refine the mother's recipes, and eventually, a candy store is born. .

They’re ‘Just Born’ to be sweet!

Candy makers David Shaffer and Ross Born talk about expanding the iconic PEEPS brand, refreshing the MIKE AND IKE brand and updating their manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, Pa.

Crystal Lindell

February 18, 2014

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An inside look at the company that makes those iconic Peeps

Candy Factory: Full circle for Hollywood’s candy maker to the stars

Creativity and flexibility keep celebrities, caterers and consumers coming back to the Candy Factory for their confectionery fix.

Bernie Pacyniak

November 18, 2013

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The next big idea. That's what Frank Sheftel thought he had back in 1984 when the Summer Olympics came to town.

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Baratti & Milano: Bridging eras with ingenuity, elan

Baratti & Milano continues to produce a broad range of traditional favorites, which date back more than a century. It does so, however, with a mix of innovative technology and in-house expertise.

Bernie Pacyniak

February 28, 2013

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The cremini, a three-layer chocolate that features two delicate slabs of gianduja chocolate sandwiching an inner chocolate paste of varying flavors, beckons memories of another era.

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On Demand Confectionery industry experts weigh in on the state of the candy industry, which has gone through the most massive shift in recent memory after grappling with COVID-19. While confectionery as a whole proved to be “pandemic proof,” not every individual category fared so well. Experts will share the insights they’ve gleaned over the last year, while also offering predictions on what’s to come.

It’s clear that the global candy industry is rapidly changing and keeping up with those trends will require both historical context and an eye toward innovation.

Items Tagged with 'candy makers '

ARTICLES

Products we loved at the 2019 ECRM Everyday and Summer Seasonal session

Schimpff's Confectionery blends tradition and innovation

Achieving the 'best' caramel by formulation, processing

Chocolat Uzma Sharif: Perseverance, pragmatism pay off.

Sweethearts in Sweets: Which came first, the candy or the couple?

Childhood Dreams Evolve Into ‘Duchess Of Chocolate’ Title

Life’s So Sweet: A N.Y. State Candy that's scripted to succeed

They’re ‘Just Born’ to be sweet!

Candy Factory: Full circle for Hollywood’s candy maker to the stars

Baratti & Milano: Bridging eras with ingenuity, elan

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