In celebration of this year’s World Chocolate Day, our publication is offering a limited one-week return for our early bird entry rates for our World Confectionery Conference taking place on 10 September.

So you can make the most of this offer by 14 July, in registering for our event at the well-established America Square One venue (near the Tower of London), through registering at confectioneryconference.com, with earlier registration being of considerable assistance to the planning of our show.

In addition, there’s also been an extension to our World Confectionery Awards, which will be presented at this year’s conference, so the industry has just two weeks to enter nominations (which remains free to do), through our World Confectionery Conference Website.

Previous award winners have been from right across the breadth of the industry, from equipment firms such as Cama, Gerhard Schubert and Syntegon, independent confectionery companies including Wild Thingz and Sweetdreams Ltd, through to ingredients firms like Alland & Robert, and premium brands Prestat and Lindt & Sprungli, so we have sought to encourage a global range of companies to get involved.

As previous winners have told us, the accolades have meant a lot to them on a personal, and indeed company level (for our Team of the Year award), so we warmly welcome entrants from around the globe to help foster that spirit of celebrating international achievements.

So, you can download awards forms free from our World Confectionery Conference website (confectioneryconference.com), which must be returned to myself (editor Neill Barston at [email protected] and event manager Aimee Carnell, [email protected] before 23 July to be considered for our honours. As previously, our sector accolades are judged by our independent editorial advisory board, as well as by Confectionery Production’s experienced team. So we look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible within the next fortnight at the latest.