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Make the most of our World Confectionery Awards and nominate your enterprise today

The deadline for our World Confectionery Awards at our World Confectionery Conference is fast drawing for us on 8 August, and we sincerely welcome your entries across the board and celebrate industry achievements.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory

Cooking up a storm in functional ingredients

With the health boom showing no signs of slowing, Confectionery Production explores how cutting-edge cooking and depositing technology, coupled with the expertise of machinery suppliers, is boosting efficiency in fortified candies. Daisy Phillipson reports

Business news, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Inflation drop welcomed by industry, though cocoa and confectionery product prices remain impacted

Today’s news that UK inflation within the food and drink sector has fallen to 1.5% is something that the industry is clearly welcoming amid a time of ongoing operating challenges within supply chains in terms of broader operating costs, including sustained spikes in the price of ingredient sourcing.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Sustainability

Global confectionery sector seeks a kick-start after ongoing supply challenges dent some international markets

There’s no getting away from the fact that the past couple of years in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic have served up a significant raft of challenges for the confectionery, snacks and bakery sectors on an international level.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing

Nestle: behind the scenes at York KitKat and the Income Accelerator scheme

Editor Neill Barston meets the Nestle UK team to tour its flagship York site, and discuss its Income Accelerator project supporter cocoa sector workers.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Will the EUDR regulations resolve remaining issues before its deadline day?

As far as policy making impacting the confectionery and snacks sector is concerned, there can be few, if any issue that has dominated global headlines like the emergence of the EUDR deforestation legislation making its way noisily through the EU parliament this summer.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

The keys to success with inspection and sorting equipment

Consumers are demanding an ever-greater level of protection around product manufacturing, as Neill Barston reports on key developments within the sorting and inspection market

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Processing, Sustainability

World Confectionery Conference early bird visitor rates extended into July

As the latest edition of the World Confectionery Conference continues to take shape, early bird visitor rates to this year’s event have been extended until July 15, so we are encouraging industry professionals to make the most of this key offer for our must-see show.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

The power of sustainability in reaping productivity and environmental gains

Delivering on company sustainability goals offers a host of challenges, given the host of background issues many companies operating in the confectionery sector face, as Neill Barston discovers

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Cargill World Confectionery Conference 2024 preview

Confectionery Production magazine editor Neill Barston speaks to James Ede, senior sustainability lead at Cargill, ahead of his appearance at this year’s World Confectionery Conference. You can register for the event at confectioneryconference.com

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Regulatory, Sustainability

Will AI potentially help or hinder snacks shopping?

There’s little doubting the impressiveness of just how rapidly AI has risen as a phenomenon over the past two years, which has stacked up huge media interest around the world.

Business news, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Regulatory

Fairtrade Foundation’s mission remains vital three decades on

While the Fairtrade Foundation laid the groundwork for the movement in the early 90s, it was a couple of years later in 1994 when the UK gained its first glimpse of Fairtrade chocolate, which made notable national and international headlines.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Loving life being confectionery’s Mr Reese

Being passionate about his family background, Brad Reese has made it his mission to promote his family’s confectionery legacy on his own terms. Editor Neill Barston speaks to him on his eventful life and times

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Time to shine again with our awards at the World Confectionery Conference

An especially significant element of our World Confectionery Conference in Brussels this September is set to take shape with our annual World Confectionery Awards, which this year have been enhanced to include an additional category of best emerging enterprise.