Last June, Associate Editor Alyse Thompson only got a taste of what a Retail Confectioners International event entails. Fortunately — for her —  Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak had other obligations, so she covered RCI’s Spring Regional Conference in Asheville, N.C., solo.

French Broad Chocolates is moving to a new facility, giving the Asheville, N.C.-based company nearly three times the production capacity, the Citizen-Times reported.