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BBX Sweet Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BBX Capital Corp., has acquired the assets of Droga Chocolates.

Georgia Tate, a Dean’s list student and junior at Kansas State University, has won the 2015-2016 John Kitt Memorial Scholarship put out by the American Association of Candy Technologists (AACT).

Is there a sweeter way to celebrate prom than to make your own dress — out of candy wrappers?

Though the Ivory Coast has been the home to a Cemoi factory for 20 years and the world’s largest cocoa producers, local Ivorians have not had much access to the final product until recent years.

A donation to satisfy any sweet tooth — that’s what Verve, Inc., an environmentally-minded, socially responsible candy company in Rhode Island, is doing by gifting 54,000 bubblegum-filled lollipops to charity.

The winners are the result of attendee voting and industry representatives’ choice.

As important as all the steps that go into chocolate making are, product innovation and consumer input are equally valuable.

The stats are in — Americans want to know what’s in their food.

It wasn’t long before she whisked me to the Tootsie Roll production area to view a continuous slab of that wonderful chocolate-like confection falling onto a conveyor belt.

To satisfy all, it’s important to understand cocoa science and structure.