Stories Collection

  1. The fact that Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. didn't succeed in its bid to buy Hers...
  2. As 2003 begins to take shape, one characteristic already stands out: it's going to be...
  3. Candy Industry Magazine, the chairman and members of the Kettle Committee will presen...
  4. Sours have staying power--this is the non-chocolate word from the candy aisles. It is...
  5. Monday, April 28 MORNING SESSIONS 8:30 - 11:45 BACK TO BASICS--CARAMEL Coordin...
  6. What's hot, what's not? Or, more accurately, what's going to be hot and what's not? I...
  7. The universe is expanding. OK, so scientists actually mean outer space is getting lar...
  8. Daniel Malley, president, Malley's Chocolate Just recently promoted to president of ...
  9. Certain ingredients are meant to go together. Strawberries and cream. Lemons and lime...
  10. About three years ago, Long Grove Confectionery Co.'s business seams started to show....
  11. * Domenic M. Antonellis President/Chief Executive Officer New England Confectione...
  12. In the past, society could mark time through generations; a gentle reckoning that enc...
  13. Shanghai's citizens are proud of showing off their city as "the city of light. "That ...
  14. St. Stephen, New Brunswick, isn't the easiest place to find, must less travel to in w...
  15. The champagne glasses have been put away, the party hats and fake leis tossed out, th...
  16. Perception is everything. If a well-packaged candy, using good graphics, papers or fa...
  17. For the thousands of Danish children that visit Toms Confectionery Group's headquarte...
  18. Bob Bury, a former VISTA volunteer, became involved in culinary pursuits when he star...
  19. Building on its success from three years ago--1,841 exhibitors from more than 30 coun...
  20. Certain ingredients are meant to go together. Strawberries and cream. Lemons and lime...
  21. Few people, after meeting Theo Graban, walk away feeling indifferent. The former Dutc...
  22. Patience certainly paid off for Pfizer Inc. Having announced that it planned to sell ...
  23. [] Domenic M. Antonellis President/Chief Executive Officer New England Confectionery ...
  24. The gap in sales between Mars Inc., the No. 1 company on Candy Industry's Top 100 lis...
  25. One simply doesn't mess with a winner. Nuts just naturally top the taste palate when ...
  26. In the quest for creating an interactive or novelty candy that's--prepare yourself fo...
  27. We passed several small villages driving through the Swiss countryside, the farm hous...
  28. No surprise that the buses were waiting for members and guests of the European Candy ...
  29. I didn't really plan it this way, but over time, one quickly learns to accept serendi...
  30. Thanks to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) and the Food Process...
  31. Jeff Pollack, one-time senior vice president of sales for a mainframe software compan...
  32. While many confectionery companies endured the aftereffects of an end-of-the-year slo...
  33. For nearly 5,000 years the hazelnut has enjoyed royal status as the aristocratic nut ...
  34. Dee Wakefield, Candy Industry's European sales manager, almost ran out of film, takin...
  35. It's still in bad taste to place chewed gum under a seat, a desk or carelessly drop i...
  36. As he embarks on his term as chairman of the National Confectioners Association, Bill...
  37. Chocolate is never out of the spotlight. From developing consumer trends emphasizing ...
  38. Stanislav Kramsky started his collection of chocolate bar wrappers when he was 12 yea...
  39. In response to consumer demand for a broader range of flavors and functional benefits...
  40. It's not as if owners Nadi Soltan and Ayad Fargo were newcomers to confectionery. Aft...
  41. Heat versus cool. Granular versus liquid. Coating versus mixing. These are only some ...
  42. In these uncertain times, candy processors want to give a KISS to their packaging sup...
  43. The science behind emulsifters amazes almost as much as eating the confections emulsi...
  44. When Yorkville, Ill.-based Amurol Confections looked to launch its new Dragon Fire ch...
  45. Signs that Jim Lampman would become a professional "foodie" surfaced early on in his ...
  46. How does a high-school dropout make himself one of the most successful candy manufact...
  47. Certain ingredients are meant to go together. Strawberries and cream. Lemons and lime...
  48. I had just walked into the Callaway Garden's cafe/ lounge area anxious to start off t...
  49. Audrey Loomis is a fruit snack expert. She's sampled them all--from Scooby Doo to Cur...
  50. American Chocolate Mould Company (ACMC), Aasted-Mikroverk and A. E. Nielsen announced...
  51. And just like that, it was over. Well, maybe not entirely over. The ramifications of ...
  52. Under the motto of "Flexibility Made in Germany," LOESCHPACK presents itself in the y...
  53. It's not every day that the head of the nation's most well-known producer of bourbon ...
  54. Established in 1880, the R.W. Hartnett Company is the original designer and first man...
  55. In business for over 50 years, Dumoulin, located in Tournan-En Brie, France, has spec...
  56. I recall several years ago when my wife and I sat down to discuss the possible sale o...
  57. SIG Sapal SA, part of the SIG Packaging Group, remains the leader for die-fold wrappi...
  58. After several days of rain and cold, the weather dramatically changed on Wednesday, J...
  59. The Austrian company Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen, known throughout the world as a lead...
  60. Seventy years later, soccer fans around the world continue to snack on Ritter Sport c...
  61. Caotech b.v., of The Netherlands, a global company that specializes in self-developed...
  62. Of all the flavors in the world to choose from, deep-pocketed, marketing savvy, soda ...
  63. Packaging professionals from around the world seeking the latest technologies to meet...
  64. The SeedMaster system, a world first launched by Buhler-Bindler, makes sure the gray ...
  65. With the start of a new seasonal candy cycle just around the corner, the confectioner...
  66. Concord Foods' Oringer division is an organically certified company, certified by Qua...
  67. Tanis Confectionery & Consultancy (TC&C) designs and supplies plants for the ...
  68. Jelly beans aren't just for Easter anymore. So says Jelly Belly Candy Co., Fairfield,...
  69. "He does almost everything better than me," quips Nello Ferrara, the chairman of the ...
  70. Appelton, Wis.-based CMD Corp. has agreed to purchase the upgrade/rebuilt portion of ...
  71. Packaging line automation and electronic monitor and control systems continue to evol...
  72. Growing demands from customers combined with the latest developments at the Aasted-Mi...
  73. A.E. Nielsen's chocolate enrobing plant, the Master, has a band width between 850 mm ...
  74. In filing a petition with Pennsylvania's orphan's court to review any sale of Hershey...
  75. Bolder. Brighter. And, of course Bigger. Once again, the National Confectioners' Asso...
  76. As a 25-year veteran of Masterfoods USA, the bulk of it being in sales, Lynn Moran, h...
  77. They call politics the art of compromise. In the case of the 2002 Farm Bill, candy ma...
  78. These are not the easiest times for candy companies. On June 13, another major manufa...
  79. Everyone knows it: novelty candy's on a run. Last year, in a difficult economic clima...
  80. "Any genuine effort to reduce childhood obesity must attack the problem at its roots....
  81. Now, using fruits and nuts in confections makes sense more than ever. Because of mark...
  82. Despite some lingering travel concerns, the statistics gleaned from global participat...
  83. The longest strike in Hershey Foods history, a 44-day walkout initiated on April 26 b...
  84. Has it been 18 months? Don't tell me you don't remember? Not a problem. I'm just doin...
  85. In the 53 years that Madelaine has been creating foil-wrapped chocolate novelties, th...
  86. PACK EXPO International 2002, November 3-7 in Chicago, will provide an excellent oppo...
  87. 57th Kettle Award Winner to be Announced June 5th 2002 August 19, 1944 was the fir...
  88. Dollar stores and supercenter retailers like Wal-Mart are gaining ground lost by supe...
  89. It was a sweet year for private label candy and gum, as it relates to annual growth a...
  90. Thomas Scheidgen, director of production at Lindt & Sprungli (USA) Inc.'s plant i...
  91. A quick look at the chocolate candy category numbers supplied by Information Resource...
  92. Each year, at the Retail Confectioners International (RCI) show, customers would come...
  93. Less than two years after it started a "greenfield" operation in the United Kingdom, ...
  94. Most manufacturers look at price hikes as an option of last resort. And when they do ...
  95. It wasn't as much a death knell for the nutraceutical confectionery business as it wa...
  96. "Fran Bigelow, a Seattle native, I graduated from the University of Washington with a...
  97. For confectioners, fats and oils represent one of the most critical components in con...
  98. This should be filed under the heading: Things they didn't teach you in driver's ed c...
  99. If Mel Warnecke, head of Warnecke Technical, Inc. and winner of the American Associat...
  100. Quietly, without fanfare, the global chocolate and cocoa industry has worked diligent...
  101. Most of the candy professionals attending the PMCA's opening day dinner at the organi...
  102. HARRY & DAVID, THE NATION'S PREMIER DIRECT MAIL RETAILER, LOOKS TO BUILD SALES BY...
  103. What used to be a corporate headquarters for a sporting goods company is now the spac...
  104. A box is not just a box--it's a selling toot. Consumers may salivate thinking about b...
  105. Anyone taking a quick walk down the grocery store's candy aisle these days might easi...
  106. August 19, 1944 was the first publication date of Candy Industry, "the newspaper of c...
  107. Consider them akin to the hot wax seals affixed to critical and/or highly personal pi...
  108. It's time once again to prepare for the IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo, which is be...
  109. One thing about Karl Howse, vice president--international and contract manufacturer m...
  110. Located just on the outskirts of Amsterdam, Nederhorst Den Berg attracts few tourists...
  111. Anthony-Thomas Candy Co. can trace its roots back to wholesaling. In the formative da...
  112. Here we are again -- Interpack. Here I am for the first time -- Interpack. From what ...
  113. CANDY INDUSTRY'S FOURTH ANNUAL EUROPEAN SUPPLIERS' ROUNDTABLE, WHICH WAS HELD WEDNESD...
  114. When Gontran Dondain, chairman of Colloides Naturels International (CNI) in Rouen, Fr...
  115. It may have been fate that brought the Zanetos family into the candy business, but it...
  116. Animal lovers would readily agree that their pets are often treated as family members...
  117. Jonathan Thomas, author of Leatherhead Food RA's study, New Challenges facing the Con...
  118. "For the most part candy is a very, easy product to flavor," says Judith Michalski, c...
  119. When Klaus Fassin took his father's recipe for licorice and fashioned it into a candy...
  120. People are continuously trying the newest product on the market, but as Russell Stove...
  121. Sollich GmbH & Co. Hall 3, Booth 3B07/C08 Sollich will once again exhibit a wi...
  122. New York City-based Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper has develo...
  123. R.M. Palmer Company has recently launched their "State Quarters" chocolate coin rollo...
  124. Cargill Dow presented NatureWorks PLA to the confectionery industry as the first comm...
  125. Despite grappling with some tough issues and tough economic times in 2001, the indust...
  126. Fairfield, Calif.-based Jelly Belly Candy Co. promotes Peter Healy to vice president ...
  127. Mankind instinctively seeks out sweet foods. No surprise then, that sugar has appeare...
  128. Tradition versus trendiness. Content versus cosmetics Snacking versus satisfaction. G...
  129. Helen Grace probably expected a box of chocolates from her husband, Bill, on her 30th...
  130. Most of us have made some kind of major purchase in life, be it a home, automobile, a...
  131. Everyone knows seasonal candies are big business. Estimates peg total sales between t...
  132. (Special coverage of the chocolate exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum) Chocolate. O...
  133. Civil engineer. Consumer packaged goods marketer. University instructor. Dealmaker. S...
  134. Monday, April 8 7:45 a.m. Registration - Chocolate Lobby 8:10 a.m. Gre...
  135. INTERPACK EXHIBITORS PROVIDING FASTER, EASIER, SMARTER EQUIPMENT International...
  136. Kencraft At a Glance Headquarters: Alpine, Utah Sales: $15 million (2001 estim...
  137. The economic and political turbo of 2001 took its toll on the confectionery industry,...
  138. August 19, 1944 was the first publication date of Candy Industry, "the newspaper of c...
  139. * Salvatore Ferrara II President/Chief Operating Officer Ferrara Pan Candy Co. Forest...
  140. The U.S. Senate did not complete action on its version of the Farm Bill before ending...
  141. Walking around Philadelphia's Market Street, people peer into the window to gawk at t...
  142. Going to the grocery store and picking up your favorite bag of candy may be a regular...
  143. As I pen this piece on my flight back to Chicago from California, our U.S. Olympians ...
  144. Candy Industry Magazine, the chairman and members of the Kettle Committee will presen...
  145. Although the world economy has suffered, individual hard candy categories were able t...
  146. Committed to shedding entities that aren't a "strategic fit" with its stable of top-s...
  147. Walk into Carle & Montanari's new three-story, 27,000-sq.-ft. office building on ...
  148. They call themselves Coco Rouge. After three years of researching the business, artis...
  149. ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO SPEAK ITALIAN TO LOVE AND APPRECIATE OPERA. THAT SAME RULE APPLIE...
  150. Although Ralph Nafziger grew up in pretzel country, Chester County. Pa., having gradu...
  151. Inside Decadent Chocolate's sleek black box, small square chocolates, both solid and ...
  152. Want a mint? Pick one, two, three, a dozen. Thanks to the popularity of intense mints...
  153. Through a cooperative joint venture, Cafosa Gum, S.A. Barcelona, Spain, and SPI Pharm...
  154. Good things come in threes. A bit skeptical, say you? Well, if you're a poker player,...
  155. It's hard to imagine a full-line confectioner without some items containing nuts. The...
  156. George Bush is in the White House. U.S. troops are fighting a war in the Middle East,...
  157. They began by testing recipes in their home kitchens. People heard about them through...
  158. These were lengthy debates, and a detailed review is outside the remit of this articl...
  159. The cutting edge of this weapon has been the move towards decentralisation and, more ...
  160. Analyses of labour-force survey (LFS) data reveal that temporary work in the public s...
  161. Ricca (1989: 288) notes that 'many policy-makers seem to confuse the concepts of prec...
  162. More flexibility is required for public service organisations and their staff to achi...
  163. A number of contradictions are evident in the government's modernisation agenda for p...
  164. The paper draws on data from in-depth case-study research carried out in two local au...
  165. Recruitment and retention There are some parallels between Conservative ideology bas...
  166. Centrally imposed local-government reorganisation was portrayed as the main culprit f...
  167. One related aspect identified in both City and County was the casualisation of newly ...
  168. In addition to the inevitable job insecurity experienced by temporary workers in the ...
  169. The variation in training provision for teachers results from the control head teache...
  170. Without training, we [temporary workers] will always be in this position. And then yo...
  171. Furthermore, the research data indicates that they suffer important disadvantages in ...
  172. 4. For example, the Single Status Agreement in Local Government, the Agenda for Chang...
  173. Dex, S. & A. McCulloch (1995) Flexible Employment in Britain: A Statistical Analysis ...
  174. LGMB (1998) Flexible Working: Working Patterns in Local Authorities and the Wider Eco...
  175. Yin, R. K. (1994) Case Study Research Design and Methods (2nd edition) (Sage). Haz...
  176. Introduction The first question Capital & Class's editors asked themselves when it r...
  177. State and market in the new Serbia...
  178. Political debate within the union had been spurred by the publication of various docu...
  179. Self-management? One interesting feature of the former Yugoslavia was the framework ...
  180. 'During the last fifteen years of transformation, the maladies of self-management hav...
  181. This research was conducted with the aid of a grant from the British Academy. Thanks ...
  182. 10. Quoted in Duric (2002). 11. Otpor grew to have a network of branches throughout ...
  183. Gradev, G. (2001) 'Bulgarian trade unions in transition:Taming the hedgehog' in S. Cr...
  184. Meardi, G. (2004) 'Social pacts on the road to EMU: A comparison of the Italian and P...
  185. Stojanovic, J. (2003) 'Serbians hold anti-government protest', Associated Press, 29 O...
  186. Copyright Conference of Socialist Economists Summer 2006 Provided by ProQuest Informa...
  187. The Runway bus, a synchronous, 64-bit, split-transaction, time multiplexed address an...
  188. This chipset implements the Fibre Channel FC-0 physical layer specification at 1.0625...
  189. The PA 7200 processor chip is specifically designed to give enhanced performance in a...
  190. To guarantee a high-quality product the HP PA 7200 CPU chip was subjected to function...