In addition to reworking the SweetWorks Confections team and company culture, Delica North America CEO Leah Dunmore has pushed for innovation, especially by expanding its Niagara Chocolates brand to national retailers.

IT’SUGAR is celebrating National Candy Month by rolling out a plan for the opening of more candy department stores across the U.S. 

Customers will be greeted by an 11-ft. Ferris Wheel candy display, a lollipop garden made with more than 1,000 lollipops, and a Chicago skyline made entirely of jelly beans.

The Confectionery Leadership Awards program was created in 2011 to recognize and honor the confectionery industry’s best and most innovative category champions and leaders.

Disset’s Chocolate Club is a quarterly membership-based program that curates seasonal boxes featuring hand-crafted chocolate products.

The 18,000-sq.-ft. location is IT’SUGAR’s second candy department store and features more than 30 candy stations.

The Hershey Company recently unveiled its new Hershey Insights Centers, facilities designed to help customers develop strategic plans based on retail growth initiatives and Hershey’s unique shopper insights.

Goo Goo's Lower Broadway location will unveil Design Your Own Confection Stations, a new full-service Chocolate Bar menu, bonbons, interactive classes and more.

The century-old candy brand will offer interactive classes, a design-your-own confection station, a full-service chocolate bar and retail shop at its location off Lower Broadway.