Specialty candy retailer Sugarfina, Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, citing shifts in the retail sector, uncertainty in its international partnerships and difficulty in controlling margins as reasons for not being profitable.

Tennis star Maria Sharapova’s line of confections, Sugarpova, has launched exclusively at the Candylicious store in Dubai.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. will hire more than 8,000 seasonal associates for various positions across its gourmet food brands for the holiday season. 

Sugarfina is poised to take on Asia with shops in Japan, Korea, Singapore and the Chinese mainland following the opening of its first Asian boutique at Harbour City in Hong Kong.

IT’SUGAR will open a three-story candy store in the American Dream retail and entertainment development in East Rutherford, N.J.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. has won a bid for certain assets of the gourmet food business of the FTD Companies, including the Shari’s Berries brand.

Although online shopping is growing, brick-and-mortar is still the primary place confections are being purchased.

We’ve all dealt with long checkout lines, haggling with a customer service rep, or having a website crash by clicking “place order.” New research from Klarna suggests shoppers will only tolerate such aggravations for so long.

Norman Love Confections has included eight new hand-crafted chocolates into its Signature Collection, the brand’s core product line.