Articles by Bernie Pacyniak

The Hershey/IOI Loders Croklaan partnership will enable StarShea, a social business that commercializes shea butter supplied by its network of rural Ghanaian women.

Jelly Belly Candy Co.’s decision to shift distribution from its Pleasant Prairie, Wis. warehouse to Memphis involves dollar-and-cents geography.

Gotcha! I just used the word titillate to provide an example of how headlines these days can be both sensational as well as misleading.

“It took 65 years to build it, four hours to destroy it and two years to rebuild. I’d say we’re not doing too badly.” Jorge Farber, president and ceo, Madelaine Chocolates.

The Conbar system represents a complete production line for products made of fat materials, soft- and hardboiled sugars, aerated fat and sugar materials and a variety of mixtures with nuts, fruits or cereals.

A 3,000-sq.-ft. shop sells not only Thorntons’ confections, but also a limited selection of drinks, sandwiches, cakes and ice cream.

It was not a gathering that Jonathan Hart, newly hired chief executive for Thorntons, recalls looking forward to. He had just joined the company in January 2011.

The recent news from Nestlé USA and Hershey about their decisions to use natural and simpler ingredients certainly gave notice to many confectioners that the landscape has also changed for them.

Thanks to innovations from chocolate suppliers as well as equipment manufacturers, large and small companies have the ability to really create astounding chocolate creations.

Thanks to new AILP technology, the AeroCore is especially suitable for dosing aerated pressurized masses, which keeps the pistons “always in line,” both in the suction and in the dosing phase of the product.