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Responding to customer demand for more wholesome savory snacking options, Mondelez is launching its first new snack brand in more than a decade.

Ferrara Candy plans to close its Winona, Minn. plant, according to an article in the La Crosse Tribune.

"In the end, the company has been in the business for 100 years, and customers really appreciate the fact that the fourth generation is taking over," say Julia Birnn Fields.

So how do you celebrate 100 hundred years of making chocolate and serving the retail confectionery community?

Abdallah Candies has been named an honoree of Finance & Commerce's 2016 Progress Minnesota awards.

Chocolaterie Guylian, makers of the famed Guylian Sea Shell chocolates, will invest €6.8 million ($7.6 million) this year to expand its production capabilities at its facility in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.

The 2015 European Candy Kettle Club Award recipient, Jean-Luc Grisot of Valrhona, believes that intense and personal involvement on all fronts — be it in the fields, in the lab, in the plant or with the customer — results in better chocolate and a better company.

Dulcey was discovered by Frederic Bau, the company’s executive pastry chef, as a result of leaving white chocolate in a water bath for 10 hours.

The new bar — jcoco arabica cherry espresso in dark chocolate — will be part of the jcoco American couture chocolate line.