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Divine buys first Fairtrade cocoa from Sierra Leone
The first container of cocoa from Sierra Leone’s only Fairtrade certified cooperative, Kpeya Agricultural Enterprise (KAE), has been bought by Divine Chocolate. Kuapa Kokoo, the Ghanaian co-operative that owns 45% of Divine Chocolate, agreed to Divine buying this shipment of cocoa from their fellow farmers in Sierra Leone.
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Innovations at Europain
The Europain and Intersuc trade shows are set to start next week. Here are some of the new innovations you can expect to see in Paris.
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Luxury confectioner bought by novelty manufacturer
Scottish premium chocolate brand Kshocolat has been bought by Welsh novelty sweets maker Bon Bon Buddies.
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NCA announces appointments
The National Confectioners Association has announced the addition of two members to its public affairs and advocacy department and the re-structuring of several other positions in order to enhance its public policy and advocacy efforts following a year-long strategic planning process.
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CarbonNeutral Natureflex supports anaerobic digestion
Innovia Films has gained CarbonNeutral certification for its full range of cellulose-based NatureFlex coated biodegradable and compostable packaging films.
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Cargill to expand Farmer Field Schools programme
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate has committed to doubling the number of Farmer Field Schools it operates in Cote d’Ivoire to 300 by mid-2010.
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Ixia launches new U card denester for bakery sector
Ixia Packaging Systems has developed a high performance denester for the bakery sector.
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Whitakers launches dispenser and chocolate range
Whitakers Chocolates has launched a counter-top dispenser plus Whitakers branded ranges of its milk orange and plain mint chocolate squares for the food services sector.
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Roshen to build second factory
Ukrainian sweet manufacturer Roshen Confectionery is planning to build a second 60,000 m2 confectionery factory in Lipetsk, Russia by early 2011.
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New low application temperature hot melt
Beardow Adams’ new BAMFutura 23 is a low application temperature hot melt adhesive that can be applied at 130°C.
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Mars and Callebaut to collaborate on cocoa flavanol agreement
Mars and Barry Callebaut have signed a cross-licensing and cooperation agreement that is expected to increase the availability and uniformity of cocoa flavanol-rich chocolate products worldwide. This is seen as the beginning of more consistent standards for beneficial cocoa flavanol products and progress towards creating a commonly used standard for measuring useful flavanols in foods.
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Raisio makes offer for Glisten
Raisio, the Finnish food group behind the Benecol brand, has made a €22.8m bid to buy UK snack maker Glisten. The Glisten board has recommended the offer to its shareholders, with the company's chairman David Wallis arguing the bid gives "a very good premium" to investors.
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Chocolat Frey reports turnover drop
Swiss confectionery company Chocolat Frey has reported an annual turnover drop of 3.4% at 368 million Swiss Francs (€251m) mainly due to foreign currency losses in international sales. This is despite retaining a turnover of 265 million Swiss Francs (€180m) in the Swiss market.
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Sigep retains visitor numbers
Sigep 2010 was visited by 96,491 trade members, slightly more than 2009 with 16,954 coming from abroad. There was a strong response from the national artisan confectionery system.
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Thorntons reports 0.7% revenue decline
UK chocolate manufacturer Thorntons has reported a decline of 0.7% on overall sales year on year at £127.4 million (€145m). This comes despite sales of the company’s branded products, excluding private label products, across all channels increased by 5.5%.
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High barrier film for environmental chocolate
Innovia Films’ high barrier compostable material, NatureFlex NK, has been selected by a Dutch company, Amigos International, to wrap Ananda, its new range of dark, fairtrade, organic chocolate from Ecuador.
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Fully fairtrade ice cream
Ben & Jerry's is to go fully Fairtrade across its entire global flavour portfolio with all ingredients certified by the end of 2013.
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AAK records record quarter on back of cocoa prices
The high global cocoa prices has seen AAK’s substitutes for cocoa butter help the plant fats company report a 36% jump to an all-time high of 289 million Swedish Kronor (€29.3m) in operating profits for the last three months of 2009.
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Whitakers Chocolates sweetens sales team
UK-based Whitakers Chocolates has recruited two sales representatives, Amy Tennant and Petra Schouten, to strengthen its specialist team across the North of England.
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UK popcorn brand in new ad campaign
The UK popcorn brand Butterkist has returned to tv screens after ten years with a new national advertising campaign.
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