Nestlé’s Christmas 2025 NPD spans KitKat Gingerbread 2F, Milkybar Advent Calendar, Quality Street Green Triangle bar, After ...

From Oreo x Reese’s to Biscoff tie-ups, partnerships are delivering the consumer buzz and sales lift that price cuts and big-ticket acquisitions no longer guarantee ...

Health is leading the charge in confectionery innovation and new product development. Consumers want more in the form of clean and functional ingredients, while policymakers are demanding less through ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Cocoa is in crisis. Driven by climate change, disease, speculative trading and chronic underinvestment, prices hit an unprecedented $13,000 per metric ton late last year – a spike that’s rattled the ...

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 ...

Freeze-drying is the latest tech-driven trend shaking up the sweet world – and it’s not just for astronauts anymore. This playful, science-backed process is helping confectioners reimagine candy with ...

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 ...

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 ...