By Deborah Cassell Editor Confection & Snack Retailing casselld@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Fresh-ward boundNotorious B.I.G. had the right idea: “I’m going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali …” All winter long here
By Bernard Pacyniak Editor-in-ChiefCandy Industrypacyniakb@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: The state of sustainabilityI wouldn’t exactly call myself a “greenie.” Yeah, I was a religious user of Chicago’s blue bags and even kept a
By Deborah Cassell Editor Confection & Snack Retailing casselld@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Lent ventAs if you couldn’t tell from the onslaught of fish sandwich advertisements (case in point: Wendy’s “limited time only”
By Bernie PacyniakEditor-in-ChiefCandy Industrypacyniakb@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: How to script a feel-good endingEveryone loves hearing, reading or viewing a good story, particularly when it has a feel-good ending. Take the movie “Slumdog
By Deborah CassellEditorConfection & Snack Retailingcasselld@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Macbook & Cheese“New products” was the topic of this morning’s meeting between chief editors from various food and beverage magazines here at BNP
After expanding Peanut Corporation of America’s recall once again, the company faces a new challenge: bankruptcy. According to PCA, the company has filed for bankruptcy and ceased all of its
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Schokinag-Schokolade-Industrie Herrmann GmbH & Co. KG, a European producer of chocolate and cocoa powder, upon approval by
After 26 years with Retail Confectioners International, executive director Van Billington has left to pursue other employment opportunities, creating an opening for a new executive director. On Jan. 1, 2009,
Doylestown, Pa.-based The Quigley Corp. announced it will close its Simon Candy manufacturing facility located in Elizabethtown, Pa. due to increased raw material costs and low-cost, foreign-sourced products. The closure
According to an article by Jerry Lynottjlynott at timesleader.com, Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. purchased property and a building in Hazleton, Pa. for $12.24 million at the end of December 2008.
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