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German Confectionery Industry: Export Scale Meets Cocoa, Energy and Volume Pressure

Germany's confectionery producers remain export-heavy and technically advanced, but cocoa, energy, labour and retail pressure are reshaping the margin equation.

Chocolate production worker handling cocoa beans in a chocolate factory

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Chocolate Prices 2026: Why Relief Is Not Yet Margin Relief

Cocoa prices have cooled from crisis highs, but chocolate manufacturers, private label buyers and retailers still face a more complicated…

BranchOut Food snack packs image from the GlobeNewswire release

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BranchOut Uses a Five-SKU Retail Win to Test Snack Platform Scale

BranchOut Food is using a five-SKU launch with a major US mass retailer to test whether its drying technology can…

WILDE protein crackers range linked to manufacturing and retail scale expansion

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WILDE Turns Protein Crackers Into a Manufacturing Scale Play

WILDE's move into protein crackers is backed by a 130,000-square-foot USDA-regulated facility, giving retailers a larger capacity story behind the…

Mitchell Arends, named Chief Supply Chain Officer at The Hershey Company

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Hershey Supply Chain Transition Puts Digital Planning First

Hershey?s appointment of Mitchell Arends as Chief Supply Chain Officer gives the confectionery and snacks group a clear operational focus…

Mars Slough chocolate factory investment and manufacturing upgrade

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Mars Slough Investment Turns Chocolate Heritage Into Digital Manufacturing

Mars is investing GBP190m in its Slough chocolate factory, linking confectionery heritage with robotics, digital twins, cooling systems and workforce…