The National Confectioners Association (NCA) and Candy & Snack Today magazine have announced the recipients of the 2025 Confectionery Leadership Awards.
These challenges already have caused lower cocoa yield and supply instability, leading in turn to quality and safety concerns, with heavy metal and pesticide contamination from archaic farming and handling practices.
The Pentawards have become the seminal event that honors each year’s packaging design trends, and sets a new tone for the new year as the industry continues to evolve.
ofi is further enhancing efforts to tackle deforestation and drive regenerative agriculture by achieving seven landscape partnerships and bringing over a million hectares under regenerative agriculture by 2030.