Features
Exclusive: Delivering product manufacturing efficiencies remains vital amid pandemic conditions
Delivering business efficiencies continues to offer a key challenge, as the confectionery industry strives to come to terms with the impact of the pandemic. Confectionery Production contributor Graham Godfrey, a sector consultant, casts his eye over this vital issue from a manufacturers’ perspective.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Packaging, Processing, Sustainability
Focus: Striving for sustainable production with gum, oils and fats
Creating product lines with natural ingredients with sustainability at their core is a prime goal of confectionery manufacturers, as Neill Barston reports
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Sustainability
Focus: Besana fruit and nut specialist marks major centenary milestone
Operating across the world, Besana, an award-winning UK/Italian-leading dried fruit and nut manufacturer supplying sectors including confectionery, is marking its 100th anniversary of the company’s founding, including 86 years in the Britain. We cast an eye over its memorable history.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, Processing, Sustainability
Spotlight: Revealing the health-conscious confectionery revolution
Creating confectionery with a healthier edge, as well as catering for fast-rising vegan and dairy-free markets, poses many challenges, as Neill Barston examines
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Focus: Tony’s Chocolonely reveals progress against its ‘slave free’ cocoa sector mission
The issue of sustainability remains at the top of the pile within the cocoa sector’s agenda. Paul Schoenmakers, head of impact at Tony’s Chocolonely, discusses its progress on the issue, and responds to concerns over its approach to tackling the major ongoing sector problem of child labour. Neill Barston reports.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, New products, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Focus: CBD holds key potential for confectionery markets, according to latest UK industry study
The Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI) and Centre for Medicinal Cannabis (CMC) has launch a report report Green Shoots – Sowing The Seeds Of The New UK Cannabis Industry with a new assessment of the CBD market within Britain. Confectionery is increasingly seen as having potential within the growing segment, as we examine.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Regulatory, Sustainability
Mondelēz International releases its 2020 Snacking Made Right sustainability report
Delivering on sustainability targets has become increasingly significant for many key businesses within the cocoa and confectionery sector, including Mondelēz International, which has just released its latest Snacking Made Right 2020 report on its core areas of progress. Neill Barston examines its results
Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Sustainability
Focus: China’s Year of the Ox’ shows signs of confectionery market resilience
As the second largest economy in the world, China has typically attracted strong attention, and as Neill Barston reports, its markets are making a faster recovery than most
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Focus: Cama and ICAM packaging and chocolate confectionery operations
Utilising flexible, highly-connected machines for state-of-the-art chocolate operations is becoming an increasing trend, as Italian-based Cama explains of its partnership with the ICAM confectionery group is proving particularly successful
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Packaging, Processing, Sustainability
Category spotlight: Online retailing drives global functional gummy market
A key upturn in gummy sales has been seen globally in the past year, with the market set to be worth $10.6 billion by 2025. But was this just a knee-jerk response to the Covid-19 pandemic or are functional sweets here to stay? Ross Carlin, MD of sector The Good Food Group explores their potential
Business news, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Behind the scenes: Oxfam reports stalled industry progress on supply chain sustainability
With the coronavirus pandemic impacting notably on food insecurity around the world, Oxfam assesses major companies including Mars, Mondelez and Nestle, regarding progress on sustainability goals, and finds that despite positive gains, progress has stalled in some key policy areas
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Focus: Dairy market continues to deliver key developments despite alternative ingredients growth
The dairy market may not have gained quite the same level of press in recent times as its growing range of alternatives, yet it’s a truly global market with plenty of life left in it, as editor Neill Barston reports
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory
Focus: How government’s latest tax relief can benefit SME manufacturers
This month, the UK government introduces its super-deduction tax relief. It’s a new incentive to try and get manufacturing businesses of all shapes and sizes back on to their feet, but is it really worth pursuing? After analysing it, Malcolm Little, the managing director at Advanced Dynamics, a UK leader in filling and capping machinery, believes it’s worth investigating if you have pre-existing growth plans
Business news, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Cocoa Association of Asia: exclusive interview
Over nearly two decades, the Cocoa Association of Asia has grown in scale and ambition, as its new chairman Alvin Lee explains exclusively to Neill Barston.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability