GLP-1 drugs are booming, reshaping eating habits and challenging the confectionery industry. As users crave less sugar, ...

Explore the latest snack trends driving festive flavour innovation, clean-label protein formats, and nostalgic sweet-salty ...

The National Confectioners Association is now accepting nominations for its annual industry awards, which will be presented ...

Brussels, do we have a problem with the EUDR? That’s the question Confectionery News posed back in May as the bloc’s director general for Trade called it “extremely burdensome”. It seemed the director ...

Apart from farmer income/poverty, the most discussed topic on day one of the World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting in Amsterdam was the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) that will be ...

Long-awaited US government-funded report from National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) that assesses progress in reducing child labour in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana’s cocoa ...

Adding probiotics, protein and fibre and removing sugar and animal ingredients mean 2024 is set to be the year of better-for-you confectionery. Here are the functional features disrupting the industry ...

Consumption rates in these countries outstripped levels in more developed Western Markets, such as the United States where the leading gum brand, Mars-owned Wrigley, is based. Kantar’s Global TGI ...

A new year brings new concepts, creations and culinary confectionery twists to surprise and delight sweet treat shoppers. According to Statista, the confectionery market will be worth $619bn in 2025, ...

With packaging as diverse and innovative as the sweet treats it houses, 2024 sees brands accelerate their environmental, visual and technological know-how Global confectionery launches are on the up, ...

Cocoa prices have soared to unprecedented levels this year, hitting a record high of $10.75 per kilogram on January 31 – the highest price seen in 60 years. This follows a turbulent first half of the ...

With rampant disease decimating the world’s second biggest supplier of cocoa, we present the latest on prices and production Amid a third difficult season for cocoa farmers, the latest figures on ...