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 ...

Price is on the mind of all confectioners as attention turns to the strategies sweet makers will be adopting to navigate the changing and complex confectionery landscape. With the ongoing cocoa ...

The commodity alternatives industry is spinning up serious growth, driven by crises in cocoa, coffee and even citrus as ingredients majors respond to mounting shortage concerns. Big focus has been ...

The confectionery market is as fast-paced as ever. Naturally, this means that brands, manufacturers, marketers and R&D professionals need to stay on top of today’s innovations, developments and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2025, leading chocolate ingredients company Barry Callebaut is offering a full line of upcycled cacao fruit ingredients, providing strong support to initiate the rising use of cacao fruit ...

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 ...

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 ...