Friday, February 25, 2011

No one likes peaunt chews except my friend sean

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blogs/media/2010/10/peanut_chews_billboards_aiming_for_snickers.html

an article from a business plan website talking about how hard Peanut chews was trying in 2010 to get their image out there

Thursday, February 17, 2011

New candy developments

http://www.confectionerynews.com/Markets/Exotic-and-indulgent-brand-twists-form-key-candy-developments

New flavors of candy are coming out using exotic fruits. MM! And again chocolate is booming in the recession!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I ate an entire bag of gummi bears monday

http://216.197.100.31/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=DA4B10E27F364601A580234D11CCB460&nm=News&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=8AB4AA5AF5214E38AEEB23DD5F6342C8&AudId=4A0007E1C5A94C11B28A92E75205FB00

An article of Industry News on the "Professional Candy Buyer" site. Brazil's chocolate industry is growing "the balance of chocolate, candy, confectionery and peanut exports for 2010 came to US$ 303.7 million, an increase of 3.7% compared to the previous year. "

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Troops Scoops!

http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2009/julytoops.html

This says it's an industry website. This article actually quotes the vice president of customer and industry affairs for Hershey Co., Hershey, Tom Joyce. It's actually a pretty accessible and interesting article. It lists weird new candies as well as gives figures from a 2009 candy expo, glad to hear candy is doing well in the recession!

Monday, February 7, 2011

There's a National Confections Association

http://www.candyusa.com/FunStuff/?navItemNumber=2670

the site seems pretty official but all the scientific stuff says you need to log in to be able to access it :( Digging around led me to here

http://www.candyusa.com/Sales/ResearchDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=1935

which has some marketing plan for candy.

Also this looks like it'd be a lot of fun.
http://www.candyusa.com/Events/EventDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=3058

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Two Candy Sources

1. https://www.aibonline.org/resources/statistics/confectionery.html

this first Source links to so many great article concerning trends in candy manufacturing. "The following document is a compilation of general information on general bakery market statistics and trends and related topics. These citations were recovered from AIB in-house databases, and represent original work by AIB personnel. Every effort is made to ensure accuracy, but AIB accepts no liability for content of this resource list."

2. http://www.aactcandy.org/firstpage/a2009201002033.pdf

This source is a Pdf of an article written by Alison Bodor from the National Confectioners Association. In the 2009 article she discusses new food regulations on cady such as the recall on possibly contaminated peanuts.