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As more consumers shop online, and in-store experiences are changing, retailers need to evolve their thinking around where and how confectionery is purchased.

The Government of Colombia — along with its two largest cocoa companies, Casa Luker and Compañía Nacional de Chocolates, and the National Cocoa Federation — has committed to eliminate deforestation from the country’s cocoa supply chain by 2020.  

When former Editor-in-Chief Bernie Pacyniak asked Associate Editor Alyse Thompson in April if she'd be interested in going to Thailand, she didn't see how candy fit into the opportunity. She quickly learned how.

Nestlé New Zealand plans to offload its sugar confectionery brands to focus on business in the chocolate, baking and medicated lozenge categories.