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73rd Kettle Award winner Mitchell Goetze hits the 'bullseye'

Goetze discusses how he manages his family business, creates new caramels and prepares the next generation.

August 16, 2018

The thing about about the famous Goetze Caramel Creams and Cow Tales is that they are basically based on a mistake - an imperfect caramel recipe.

Dispatches from Candyland

Sweets & Snacks Expo kicks off at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Alyse Thompson-Richards

May 23, 2018

This is Associate Editor Alyse Thompson's second Sweets & Snacks Expo, but it already feels like old hat. Getting around was a breeze, and she enjoyed catching up with manufacturers, suppliers, sales people and marketers she's gotten to know over the last couple years.

Goetze gets it: 73rd Kettle Award goes to Mitchell Goetze, ceo of Geotze’s Candy Co.

Ceremony held at Chicago's Union League Club recognizes confectionery industry leadership.

Bernie Pacyniak

May 23, 2018

At Candy Industry’s 73rd Kettle Awards, with nearly 250 guests in attendance, Mitchell Goetze, ceo of Goetze’s Candy Co., received the industry’s most prestigious award, the gleaming copper kettle.

2018 Kettle Awards nominees announced

Foursome represents a cross-section of excellence within the industry.

Bernie Pacyniak

December 6, 2017

Candy Industry Magazine’s Kettle Awards Committee has announced the list of nominees for the industry’s most prestigious award.

Method and moxie key for 72nd Kettle Award winner Sara Clair

Brown & Haley product development director's success lies in scientific method, drive.

Bernie Pacyniak

August 11, 2017

It’s an impressive resume: Chocolatier; entrepreneur; political activist; consultant; new product developer; foundation chairman; industry volunteer; philanthropist. Of course, let’s not forget wife, mother and foodie.

Koch of Morley's Candy Co. finds sweet sailing in confectionery industry, wins Kettle Award

Mike Koch navigates industry by charting a course that integrates automation, quality control, industry involvement

September 21, 2016

Kettle Award aside, Koch says being in the position of overseeing expansion in manufacturing, and watching the company grow, makes the sailing truly sweet.

Mike Koch, v.p. of operations of Morley Candy Co., wins Candy Industry's 71st Kettle Award

Koch receives award during 2016 Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago

Bernie Pacyniak

September 19, 2016

Following a few dramatic second, the name Mike Koch was announced. Once again, the crowd burst into applause upon hearing his name called.

Michael Rosenberg captures Kettle Award

May 20, 2015

Last night at Candy Industry’s 70th Anniversary celebration of the magazine’s Kettle Awards, Michael Rosenberg, president and ceo of Promotion In Motion Companies, Inc. received the gleaming copper kettle.

Kettle Award recipent sees the candy industry as 'a community'

Editor Bernie Pacyniak takes a deeper look at this year's Kettle Award recipient, Mike Bianco.

Bernie Pacyniak

August 20, 2014

You can often tell when an article’s good by how much you’ve left out, and my cover story on Mike Bianco is missing plenty of material.

Kettle Winner Profile: A Beamin’ And Beanin’ Bianco

Candy Industry’s 69th Kettle Award Mike Bianco recipient encompasses all the best attributes of a candy maker’s “candy maker.”

Bernie Pacyniak

August 14, 2014

Mike Bianco openly professes that he prefers “talking to machines.”

Opopop aims to heat up microwave popcorn category

Hershey showcases its new strategies at Sweets & Snacks Expo

Hershey showcases new strategies, candy

Hard candy evolves beyond traditional sweetness

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