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Better-For-You Confections
Candies focusing on nutrition and health.
Candy & Confections
All the latest finished goods’ trends, for savvy retailers looking to stay on top of the confectionery market place.
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Cannabis Candy
Cannabis confections are a growing industry, and manufacturers are creating candies with THC, CBD, and hemp all an in attempt to appeal to evolving consumer tastes. Candy Industry covers the sector with a focus on how manufacturers and retailers can respond to these trends.
Chocolate
Milk, white, and dark chocolate products.
Energy/Snack/Nutrition Bars
Bar products, including granola, snack, protein, meal replacement, and energy bars.
Gourmet Chocolate
Gourmet and high quality candies.
Gummies & Jellies
Chewy candies, which include gummies, jellies, mallow- and gelatin-based products.
Gums & Mints
Functional as well as flavored gums and mints.
Hard Candies
Lollipops, suckers, jawbreakers, and all other hard candies.
Licorice
Licorice products, including those with and without licorice extract.
Novelty Candies
Seasonal, occasional, or promotional candies.
Sugar-Free Candy
Sugar-free, artificially and naturally sweetened products.
Snacks
From salty to sweet, and everything in between, snacks are have made their way into the confectionery world. Candy Industry Magazine offers the latest news and reviews on everything from chocolate-covered potato chips to spicy popcorn, so you can stay up-to-date on all things delicious!
Vegetarian Candy
Candies and chocolates made with vegetarian and vegan recipes continue to gain popularity, as more consumers are looking for foods created without any animal byproducts. The latest trends and innovations offer new insight into vegetarian candy.
ARTICLES
See’s Candies unveils Centennial Easter Tin, March Sweet-of-the-Month
See’s donated thousands of pounds of Easter chocolate to frontline workers last year.
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Morinaga America launches two new flavors of HI-CHEW Plus Fruit
Chewy candy includes real fruit pieces.
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Guittard introduces Beyond Sugar baking chips
Line includes 100% cacao chips, 72% cacao chips sweetened with coconut sugar.
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Bissinger’s Handcrafted Chocolatier to open in former GODIVA store at St. Louis mall
GODIVA plans to exit all North American retail stores by the end of March.
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Numerator’s new Sweet Treat Tracker shows candy sales grew 3 percent in 2020
The new online tracker is updated every other week, monitors sweet categories such as bakery, candy and snack cakes.
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Welch’s brand launches Juicefuls Fruit Snacks
Each translucent piece shows the juice inside.
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Iceland’s Omnom Chocolate introduces Easter items
Company launches Mango-Passion Milk Chocolate Almonds, Lakkris Sea Salt Krunch.
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M&M’S reintroduces Messages packaging, partners with Spotify
Each pack will have a code that when scanned pulls up a corresponding Spotify playlist.
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Keebler's new AR experience highlights its Make-A-Wish partnership
Consumers can scan a QR code taking them to the brand’s Hollow Tree, where they'll be led around by elves.
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Newly formed Second Nature Brands to house Kar's Nuts, Second Nature Snacks, and Sanders Chocolates
Company adds new boards members, builds new innovation center, plans over 25 new products for 2021.
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