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Midsized businesses still struggling with change

ADP’s Midsized Business Owners study documents concerns.
Bernie Pacyniak
October 15, 2014

On a day when the stock market drops more than 460 points, I’m here to hold your hand and to let you know that “All will be well.” At least all of us Baby Boomers with retirement savings tied into 401(k) plans certainly hope so.


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Healthy Food Brands: My favorite kind of candy people

Russ Asaro, Rob Kowitt exemplify everything I love about the confectionery industry.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
October 8, 2014
It’s hard to spend time with Russ Asaro and Rob Kowitt of Healthy Food Brands and not leave with a smile on your face.
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Snacking

How to reach the three types of snackers — the planner, the purposeful and the spontaneous

Snacks are no longer just in-between meal treats — for many, they are the meal.
Susan Dunn
October 1, 2014
The global snacking industry generated $374 billion in annual sales in the year ending March 2014, according to Nielsen sales figures — and it's growing.
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New app helps you bake the perfect cake every time

Will kitchen apps replace cookbooks?
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
September 24, 2014
“[Perfect Bake] hand-holds the user throughout the entire baking process, from recipe selection, scaling and prep, measuring and adding ingredients, mixing and portioning, to baking and cooling,” says Pure Imagination, the company that makes the app.
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Great Ideas Abound At RCI Events

RCI recently wrapped up its 94th Annual Convention & Industry Expo in St. Louis.
Angie Burlison
September 17, 2014
Candy makers and suppliers connected on the Expo show floor, listened to a wide variety of educational presentations and took tour buses to see firsthand what candy makers in St. Louis are up to.
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How supposedly good intentions almost killed a chocolate company

Ritter Sport wins critical labeling battle in Munich Supreme Court
Bernie Pacyniak
September 17, 2014
Recently, the company has been in a litigious court case involving its natural flavoring description on the label of its Whole Hazelnut Chocolate bar.
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Chocolate teapot

Chocolatier to the rescue: Nestlé proves you can make a chocolate teapot

British chocolate teapot idiom shattered by Nestlé’s John Costello.
Bernie Pacyniak
September 10, 2014
On a day when the world’s headlines weighs heavily on everyone’s shoulders, it’s good to know that chocolate can not only prove tasty, but incredibly inspirational.
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Candy drones

Google drones could one day deliver candy bars

Google’s Project Wing debuts drone prototypes.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
September 3, 2014
“As part of our research, we built a vehicle and traveled to Queensland, Australia for some test flights,” Google explains. “There, we successfully delivered a first aid kit, candy bars, dog treats, and water to a couple of Australian farmers.”
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Cocoa farmers

Hershey sponsors Ghana’s cocoa farmer of the year’s U.S. trip.

More farmers should have the chance to see where their chocolate is sold
Bernie Pacyniak
August 27, 2014
How often have we heard that so many cocoa farmers never get to taste the very “food of the gods” that they grow?
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Candy makers should welcome changes from FDA

Added sugar labels, serving size changes are better than the alternative.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
August 20, 2014
Back in the day, when I was but a young college student gaining what is infamously known as the “The Freshman 15,” as in “15 additional lbs.,” I had a revelation about calories.
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