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Chicago’s Old Main Post Office a ‘blank canvas’ for creating Ferrara’s new headquarters

Candy company set to move into long-vacant building by late summer.

January 2, 2019

The phrase “Sweet Home Chicago” will soon have new meaning for Ferrara Candy Co. The 111-year-old candy company is moving its headquarters from the city’s western suburbs to the long-vacant Old Main Post Office building on Van Buren Street this year.

The Hershey Trust Co. owns 81 percent of the voting power behind The Hershey Co. But being owned by a Trust doesn't necessarily preclude a sale of The Hershey Co.

If not Mondelez, then who?

Speculation continues after snack and confectionery giant formally withdraws offer to acquire the Hershey Co.

Bernie Pacyniak

August 31, 2016

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So, here’s a spoiler alert… I really don’t know who is contemplating acquiring The Hershey Co. or, even more to the point, whether it ever will be acquired.

Australian chocolate manufacturers pledge to achieve 100 percent sustainably sourced cocoa

The pledge has been made publicly by all major manufacturers.

Abigail Watt

March 23, 2016

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All major chocolate manufacturers – including Mondelez, Nestle, Mars, Ferrero, Haigh's, Lindt, and others – have committed to using only sustainably sourced cocoa in all locally produced products.

Why the Internet loves Kinder Surprise eggs

The FDA's ban has become an online joke, but people talk about it for a reason.

Abigail Watt

February 24, 2015

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It should come as no surprise that on the Internet, there are places where people are very fixated indeed on the fact that Ferrero's Kinder Surprise eggs are banned from sale in the United States.

Ferrero pulls “Yes White Can” Küsschen ad

Company responds to backlash after Küsschen ad interpreted as racist.

Crystal Lindell

September 4, 2013

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Run in sync with Germany’s election’s season and meant to draw comparisons to Obama’s popular “Yes We Can,” slogan, things didn’t exactly go as planned for the chocolate company.