Reveling with RCI in Asheville

Spring Regional Conference held April 9-12 in Asheville, N.C.

April 18, 2018

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 founders embrace cacao as a lifestyle

Desire for the North Carolina company's bean-to-bar chocolates prompts multiple expansions.

March 21, 2018

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Intent on nurturing connections to the source of their food, French Broad Chocolates imports cacao from trusted farmers.

North Carolina chocolate company to expand

French Broad Chocolate to almost triple production space, open new cafe.

Alyse Thompson

August 23, 2017

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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.

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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.

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Reveling with RCI in Asheville

French Broad Chocolates founders embrace cacao as a lifestyle

North Carolina chocolate company to expand

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

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