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Bain reports research on 100,000 shoppers re: brand growth
According to Bain & Company, the best way brands can grow over the long term: They need to grow the number of buyers. That may sound obvious or even like circular reasoning. But the reality is that it’s a counter-intuitive departure from the way generations of consumer goods marketing plans...
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Barry Callebaut inaugurates its first Cocoa Center of Excellence in Cote d’Ivoire
Barry Callebaut builds a ‘showcase farm’ and provides training curriculum includes a focus on intercropping to promote diversification and help support food security requirements of cocoa farming families. Click Here to read the full article!...
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Continuing education grants for confectionery training
The Allured Fund for Confectionery Education provides grants to those people who would like to attend an educational event in the U.S. confectionery industry, but are unable to attend due to financial hardships. The fund was created in the memory of three individuals that each dedicated their lives to the...
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Hershey Hopes to Double Nigerian Crop
Two thirds of the world’s cocoa is grown on small, family farms in West Africa. Learn about the Learn to Grow program, a public private partnership, working to strengthen the Nigerian cocoa communities and improve their annual production. Click here to read the full article!...
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Added health: Emerging ingredients for functional chocolate
Chewable vitamins have been available for generations. Food scientists are now experimenting with chocolate as a delivery system for a variety of functional ingredients including vitamins, botanicals, antioxidants and extracts....
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The Confectionery Foundation Industry Immersion and Career Fair
The Confectionery Foundation has a great educational and career fair program planned for Sweets & Snacks EXPO this year. May we bring a few small groups of students to your booth for 15 minutes each to learn about your company? Can you or a colleague find 90 minutes to be...
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