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Consumers are actively looking to change their diets by reducing their sugar intake and live healthier lifestyles, but there are many challenges to achieving sugar reduction.

IT’SUGAR has opened its 22,000-sq.-ft. candy store, which features branded shops and a three-story Statue of Liberty covered in 1.5 million Jelly Belly beans.

Sugarfina has opened a 650-sq.-ft. boutique in the Polanco district of Mexico City, the specialty candy retailer’s first in Latin America.

Impact Confections, Inc. and KUA Candy LLC have formed a partnership under which KUA Candy will purchase Impact's Wisconsin manufacturing facility while Impact retains the sales and marketing ownership of its two main brands.

The American Association of Candy Technologists (AACT) is offering a $5000 scholarship award for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Barry Callebaut has announced that in fiscal year 2018/19 it sourced 51 percent of its ingredients sustainably, up from 44 percent the previous year.

CandyStore.com reached out to major candy manufacturers, distributors and customers to create a map illustrating favorite holiday candies in each state.

With varying stages of cannabis legalization in the U.S. and Canada — and the proliferation of cannabis-infused edibles in the marketplace — the Professional Manufacturing Confectioners Association recently hosted a science symposium on incorporating cannabis into confectionery and snack products.

Emulsifiers, which combine the fat and water elements of confectionery, offer a wide range of potential benefits.

Much of the confectionery industry is held together by emulsifiers — literally. They are the magic that combines water and fat ingredients with each other.