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The PEZ Easter Egg Collection is back with three Easter-themed mini PEZ dispensers in an egg-shaped package.

Nestlé has introduced Milkybar Wowsomes, the first chocolate using Nestlé’s restructured sugar designed to reduce its products’ sugar content by 30 percent.

Completing its all-cash acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc., Monday, Campbell Soup Co. will fold that company in with Pepperidge Farms to create the Campbell Snacks division.

Harvard professor Carla Martin is concerned with the ethics behind chocolate, particularly in terms of labor, politics and human rights. She says chocolate is springboard for discussing and addressing these issues.

Intent on nurturing connections to the source of their food, French Broad Chocolates imports cacao from trusted farmers.

IndexBox noted the market reached $17.6 billion in 2016, up $819 million — or 5 percent — from 2015. This figure reflects total revenue of producers and importers and excludes logistics costs, retail marketing costs and retailers’ margins.

Popchip’s peanut butter-based Nutter Puffs take everything snackers love about peanut butter and pack it into one perfectly snackable puff.

Anaheim, Calif.-based Nellson Nutraceutical, LLC, a leading North American formulator and manufacturer of branded and private-label nutritional bar and functional powder products, officially debuted its new $70-million nutrition bar manufacturing plant in Ontario, Calif. today. 

In celebration of the country’s strong connection to chocolate, workforce training firm Syntra West will sponsor Chocolate University Belgium, a weeklong chocolate training program in Bruges. 

Hammond’s Brands has introduced a line of 3-oz. vertical-tablet Belgian chocolate bars, which are a larger than Hammond’s existing 2.25-oz. chocolate bars.