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The Boston Globe, the Shelby Report and other sources reported NECCO CEO Michael McGee told Massachusetts and Revere officials in a March 6 letter that the 171-year-old company has been in negotiations with potential buyers. 

Newfangled Confections offers blast-from-the-past candy made with a dash of love and nostalgia.

La Quinta Resorts and Club in La Quinta, Calif., proved ideal for this year’s Western Candy Conference, providing attendees with a spectacular backdrop for WCC’s 85th anniversary and its GENerational theme.

Nestlé has introduced Milkybar Wowsomes, the first chocolate using Nestlé’s restructured sugar designed to reduce its products’ sugar content by 30 percent.

Completing its all-cash acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc., Monday, Campbell Soup Co. will fold that company in with Pepperidge Farms to create the Campbell Snacks division.

Intent on nurturing connections to the source of their food, French Broad Chocolates imports cacao from trusted farmers.

Through its newest campaign — the East Meets West Flavor Challenge — Morinaga America will bring a little bit of Japan to the United States to mark its 10-year anniversary here.

IndexBox noted the market reached $17.6 billion in 2016, up $819 million — or 5 percent — from 2015. This figure reflects total revenue of producers and importers and excludes logistics costs, retail marketing costs and retailers’ margins.

A group of stakeholders led by the National Confectioners Association and the Sweetener Users Association has formed the Alliance for Fair Sugar Policy with the goal of pushing Congress to modernize the U.S. sugar program.

Pittsburgh-based Edward Marc Brands has partnered with Thomas Tull, founder of Legendary Entertainment and minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and his wife, Alba, to expand its retail arm — The Milk Shake Factory — from two to 25 stores during the next three years.