Helen Pattinson, co-founder and director with husband Simon of chocolate firm Montezuma, has been named winner of the Natwest everywoman Athena Award for female business owners aged 36–49.
Sensient Food Colors Europe has launched a range of high-load natural colours for pan-coated sweets that achieve bright, attractive colour shades without needing higher dose levels to match the performance of their synthetic counterparts.
Nestlé aims to offer 1,900 job opportunities in the UK and Ireland over the next three years, including 300 paid work experience placements, it announced today (November 15).
Biscuit and snack producer Burton’s Biscuit Company has installed equipment at its Llantarnam factory in Wales to make the chocolate cream for a ‘Choccie Dodger’ version of its iconic ‘Jammie Dodger’.
Mondelēz International aims to capture market share and grow sales through strategies such as combining brands and targeting trends, including the increasing demand for snacking.
Mondelēz International is pouring cash into sustainable farming projects, including $400M in cocoa farms in developing economies, to secure a strong and stable supply base.
Mondelēz International’s heat resistant chocolate, new product development and increased penetration in under-represented parts of the world offers the company considerable potential for the future, chocolate head Bharat Puri has claimed.
Cocoa waste could help make chocolate wrappers and other food packaging, thanks to a pioneering process devised by UK paper manufacturer James Cropper.
Haribo's £92M confectionery plant at Castleford, West Yorkshire, initially revealed in 2011, could be just the first phase of expansion, according to md Herwig Vennekens.
A premium Kent-based fudge firm has signed a major deal to provide Selfridges with own-label products – 30 years after first setting up shop at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Claims that people can get ‘hooked’ on certain foods which then makes them obese are overstated, with the result that food addiction is becoming an overly simplistic explanation for overeating, according to a leading expert in psychobiology.
Nestlé has triumphed over Cadbury in a UK Court of Appeal hearing challenging its application to trademark the shade of purple it uses for milk chocolate bar and drinking chocolate packaging.
GlaxoSmithKline’s sale of Lucozade and Ribena for £1.35bn earlier this month was the latest in a long line of iconic British brand sales topped by Cadbury.
Nestlé is to make more than 50M Android-branded KitKat bars, after teaming up with Google to launch the new version of its Android mobile operating system to be called Android KitKat.
Chr Hansen has launched a 'natural' blue shade of colourant that can be used in the manufacture of confectionery or chewing gum in the US. The colourant is based on spirulina: a blue-green algae that occurs naturally in tropical and sub-tropical...
A major chocolate snack manufacturer has moved away from steam boilers in favour of a new heating system for temperature trending and recipe control. ICS Cool Energy supplied T90 non-pressurised water heaters to support the task of chocolate tempering,...
Food packaging firm Discovery Foils has already attracted interest from potential buyers, despite 69 redundancies at the firm after it entered administration earlier this month.
Cadbury is offering Irish men an exclusive, face-to-face meeting with Hollywood heartthrob Megan Fox as part of a ‘No Nuts No Glory’ promotional campaign for its Starbar snack bar.
A company making handmade fudge is predicting a 40% to 60% rise in turnover over each of the next two years as high-end retailers increasingly seek to stock its products.
Perceptions of the food industry are changing and manufacturing is becoming a more popular career for young people, according to Mars UK president, Fiona Dawson.
Nestlé UK has dismissed four workers from its Fawdon factory, which makes confectionery brands such as Rolo and Yorkie, for what it described as “gross misconduct safety-related offences”.
The shock exit of tennis superstar Maria Sharapova from Wimbledon last week will allow more time to concentrate on her new confectionery business, amid claims that she is cashing in on her sports stardom to sell sweets.
Evidence about addiction to food is “limited” and cannot explain the current global obesity epidemic, researchers from the University of Cambridge have claimed.
Nestlé Canada has denied acting improperly after allegations of price fixing in the country by the Canadian Competition Bureau. Mars Canada, and the distributors ITWAL have also been charged with competition offences.
Carmit Candy Industries has unveiled a weight-management chocolate wafer bar that combines two ingredients that are clinically proven to increase satiety: glucomannan and a potato-derived proteinase inhibitor Slendesta.
Cargill claims to be revolutionising the chocolate market with a caramel offering that is the “fourth type of chocolate” alongside milk, white and dark.
Cargill and Arasco are creating a new starches and sweeteners joint venture in Saudi Arabia to meet growing demand in the confectionery, bakery and juice sectors in the region.
ADM Cocoa has restructured its organisation into five key regions and business units as it looks to enhance the level of service and support offered to customers by its global cocoa and chocolate team.
As demand for natural food colours grows, suppliers and their customers are paying more attention to traceability and supply chain control. Paul Gander reports.
Associated British Foods (ABF) is locked in row with Oxfam about what the charity claims is the “veil of secrecy” the food manufacturing giant allegedly uses to hide the “human cost” of its supply chain.
Confectionery manufacturer Thorntons plans to close a further 40 stores in this financial year, as it continues to focus on “significant growth” in multiple-channel sales via supermarkets and Thorntons Direct online.
