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We want to hear from our valued readers

Looking back to the past helps inform our future, and we’d like your input to inform our future as well.

Crystal Lindell

December 8, 2021

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Looking back to the past helps inform our future, and we’d like your input to inform our future as well.

Delta variant's spread across the U.S. raises questions for candy industry

It’s hard to predict how consumers, industry events and upcoming holidays will be impacted by the new COVID-19 variant.

Crystal Lindell

August 11, 2021

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Seeing news this morning that an in-person industry event had been canceled felt eerily similar to spring 2020.

After a sour year, 2021’s National Candy Month is uniquely sweet

After a long, difficult year, the confectionery industry has a lot to be thankful for.

Crystal Lindell

June 2, 2021

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June is National Candy Month, so allow us to make a proposal: This year, go all out.

Pandemic heightens consumer demand for brand transparency

Innova Market Insights reveals that shoppers want to know what’s in their food and where it comes from.

Crystal Lindell

May 26, 2021

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According to an Innova survey, 28 percent of consumers globally said that trust had become more important to them over the past 12 months, while over a fifth specifically named “transparency,” which is instrumental in building that trust.

Lindell column: Conferences should continue virtual event access after COVID-19

As events move in-person, Editor Crystal Lindell asks organizers to keep virtual offerings for participants.

Crystal Lindell

May 12, 2021

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"To be clear, I’m not asking that we hold events with only virtual options — I’m just asking that we don’t hold any with only in-person options," Lindell writes.

Amazon

Why is Amazon opening in-person stores just as consumers shift to online grocery shopping?

Amazon's expanding grocery store presence also means more distribution centers.

Crystal Lindell

April 12, 2021

Why would any grocery retailer be expanding in-person stores at a time like this? Editor Crystal Lindell has a theory: In short, stores double as distribution points.

COVID-19

After a year of COVID-19, how will the candy industry know the worst is over?

With about 3 months to go until the NCA’s Sweets & Snacks Expo, the event will again serve as a touchstone in the pandemic timeline.

Crystal Lindell

March 10, 2021

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It’s different for different people. Editor Crystal Lindell marks the beginning of COVID-19 at 8:51 p.m. Central Time, March 11, 2020.

Pantone’s 2021 Colors of the Year offer strength, optimism

Ultimate Gray, Illuminating yellow follow 2020’s Classic Blue.

Alyse Thompson

January 20, 2021

How can we hold both the somberness of what has happened and optimism for what could come? Pantone, the provider of professional color language standards, has represented this through its selection of the 2021 Colors of the Year.

How can we make predictions after such an unpredictable year?

2020 made forecasting 2021 feel different than it has in years past, but it also showed that knowing the future isn’t as important as we once thought.

Crystal Lindell

December 16, 2020

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We just spent all of 2020 being hit with one large-scale traumatic event after another. How could anyone possibly know what the 2021 confectionery trends are going to be?