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ISM offers more of the good things

48th show continues to reflect consumer trends of better-for-you, permissible indulgence
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Bernie Pacyniak
April 13, 2018
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Certainly there were plenty of traditional sweets for candy lovers to sample and enjoy. Still, it was clear that more fruit, more indulgent chocolate, more whimsy, more intensity, more color and more authenticity permeated the show displays.
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'The Beautiful Sweet': ABICAB offers snapshot of successful Brazilian candy companies

Country known for coffee, soccer also a major player in global confectionery industry
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Milena Boggio
October 13, 2017
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What many people don't know is that Brazil's unique offering of exotic flavors, combined with its competitive position as one of the few countries self-sufficient in producing milk and sugarcane, has placed the country among the major global players in the confectionery industry.
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Q-Zero's Samantha Aquim: Brazil’s cocoa passionista

Inspired by Joao Tavares’s fine-flavored cocoa beans, gourmet chef/ psychoanalyst Samantha Aquim turns her talents toward chocolate, creating an amazing line of Brazilian premium chocolates.
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Bernie Pacyniak
July 21, 2015
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Samantha Aquim, from Aquim Gastronomia, continues to help run the family catering business in Rio de Janeiro as a gourmet chef. In addition, she also continues to draw upon her education reading and researching therapy.
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Supermarket showtime: Photos from the 2015 APAS show in Brazil

Brazil’s APAS 2015 is the largest retail and supermarket industry show held in Brazil. Naturally, there were several confectionery exhibitors at the event, displaying new product launches and reconnecting with past customers.

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Mendoa Chocolates: From Farm to factory

Raimundo Mororó, a retired researcher from the Executive Committee of the Cocoa Farming Planning (Ceplac), built a chocolate processing facility on Farm Riachuelo near Ilheaus, Brazil. There he produces chocolates using cocoa beans harvested from the farm and marketed under the Mendoá name. The company most recently exhibited its product line at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris last year.

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