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Diversity is important — that’s a statement applicable both to people and to the food we eat. It’s part of what makes nuts and fruits ideal ingredients to add to confections.

Once the mystery and magic of chocolate gets into your blood, it’s hard to escape from it. Just ask Angela and David Emerson who run Amarah’s Chocolate Co., a candy/gift store at the Taft Corners Shopping Center in Williston, Vt.

“The first day beta launched, we saw someone send from California to Arizona, and then the person in Arizona turned around and sent one to Massachusetts, and then the person in Massachusetts sent one to Florida, and they hadn’t even received the gift,” says Elisabeth Vezzani. “Right from the beginning, I just felt really confident that if we gave it our all we had something.”

"We have a long history of cacao farming," says Saul Amarista. "Our vision is preserve the cacao farm for the next generation of Venezuelan cacao farmers as well as to build on that legacy, setting an example for the highest quality standard cacao."

Product of the Year USA, the largest consumer-voted award for product innovations, has announced its 2016 award winners, and three candy and snack companies are among the winners.

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

Since its initial presentation at the Clinton Global Initiative in May 2015, the initiative has been working to fulfill its goal to provide cocoa-growing communities with access to education.

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.

Check out the most delicious new candy products Candy Industry's Managing Editor Crystal Lindell brought back from her trip to visit the Goo Goo Cluster store in Nashville, Tenn., as she shares what she loved with Contributor Abigail Watt.

Huffman was chosen by PMCA's Production Conference Program Committee, which will hand out the award on April 12 during the 70th Annual Production Conference dinner.