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Beringer Vineyards, which is based in St. Helena, Calif., leases and operates Bancroft Ranch Vineyards.

With an industrial culture that favors private labeling as well as increasingly popular native fruits, Brazil is poised to keep expanding its influence in the confectionery industry.

Barry Callebaut has launched a new platform for chocolate companies and other contributors to help support sustainable cocoa.

Virc LLC's new 25,000 sq.-ft. plant is expected to be completed in March of 2016.

"I remember spending summers in the workshop when I was a teenager. All my friends were enjoying the summer at the sea and here I was sweating in the shop. I didn't particularly like it at the time, but when I think back now, it was a critical part of my education in the family business," Josef Haas says.

The stripe laminated twist wrap can also be used for single twist "sachet" applications, where the aluminum strip is offset to one side of the wrapper.

There’s a reason, actually several reasons, why Multifilm is known as the "twist-wrap guys."

Mention the word Haas to anyone familiar with the baking, snack or confectionery industries, and the word wafer automatically comes to mind.

Goody Goody Gumdrop, which claims to have the largest candy store in Wisconsin, has three shops in the Wisconsin Dells.

Overall, sales in the salty snack category grew 4.32 percent over the last year, for a total increase of $21.3 billion in the last 52 weeks ending July 12, 2015, reports IRI, a Chicago-based research firm.