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Candy Industry Magazine reveals its exclusive list of the Top 100 confectionery companies in the world.

At first glance, all is good in the confectionery world.

Global confectionery sales to be precise. A casual comparison between last year’s global confectionery sales estimates ($198.4 billion) and this year’s ($183.5 billion) suggests a dramatic 7.5 percent decline.

The Hershey Co.’s Board has unanimously rejected interest from Mondelēz to acquire it.

Trade secret violations are becoming increasingly common, and as more and more of the candy manufacturing is outsourced to third parties, it’s important that small businesses know how to protect themselves to prevent a trade secret misappropriation in the first place, and know how to fight back when a violation occurs.

On July 14, 2014, when the Lindt & Sprüngli Group announced that it was acquiring Russell Stover Candies, the news raised some eyebrows within the U.S. chocolate market.

"It was clear that Thompson Chocolate’s core go-to-market principal was the delivery of a quality product that was made with all-natural chocolate," Dunkin says. "Our niche was in the more premium segment. We were not the low-cost producer in the chocolate novelty segment. We weren’t going to compete on price like compound chocolate products."

“ChocoStyle itself comes from the idea of focusing on what people love best. So we asked ourselves, ‘Who likes chocolate? Men or Women? Mostly women.’ Then, ‘What else do women like?’ And we said, ‘Fashion. And what in fashion? Fashion is too vague. So shoes.’ It was just something that emotionally connects," says Virgilio Rubini, president of ChocoStyle Int’l.

Airheads isn’t worried about being over the hill — the candy is kickstarting their 30th birthday in epic style with a new limited-edition flavor