Items Tagged with 'confections'

During the American Association of Confectionery Technologists (AACT)’s Annual Technical seminar, the organization stages s a friendly competition dubbed the AACT Iron Confectioner.

The Conference will focus on the use of dairy ingredients in confections,sustainability issues, and formulation and processing challenges.

Goody Good Stuff is bringing the good stuff to the States.The company has announced that its all-natural gummy candies are now available in the United States at 7-Eleven stores across the country.

For 60 years, Peeps have been an iconic Easter confection, showing up in the baskets and plastic eggs of children everywhere. However, Just Born, the brand’s owner, wants to remind consumers that Peeps can be eaten and used all year long.

Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based Doumak, a global supplier of marshmallow products, has promoted Mark Schuessler, its v.p. of sales and marketing, to president.

In the past, private-label candy usually meant confections that didn’t have a national branded presence, like orange slices, ball gums, starlight mints, gummi bears and circus peanuts.

Current Euromonitor International projects peg Mexico’s retail confectionery sales at $5.4 billion in 2017, more than a billion dollars gain since 2012. This represents the sixth best retail market for global confectionery sales. It also places Mexico second, exceeded only by Brazil, within Latin America.

 There’s a Nigerian proverb that states it takes a whole village to raise a child, the idea being that it’s a communal effort shared by an extended family.