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Mars Snickers

Mars invests £190 million in chocolate factory

Mars, Incorporated, the family-owned business behind brands including M&M’S®, Ben’s Original™, EXTRA®, Pringles®, Cheez-It®, SNICKERS®, PEDIGREE® and WHISKAS®, has unveiled a major £190 million investment that transforms its historic Slough factory into a next-generation manufacturing hub. 
NextCoa North America

Cargill Brings Cocoa-Free Chocolate to North America

Cargill and Voyage Foods are bringing NextCoa™, an award-winning confectionery alternative to chocolate, to North America, starting in the United States.
Tanis interpack

Tanis and Aasted Enter Strategic Partnership

Tanis and Aasted announce a new strategic partnership aimed at delivering fully integrated, high-performance candy bar production lines to the global confectionery industry.
IFF Madagascar

IFF opens Vanilla Innovation Centre in Madagascar

IFF – a global provider of flavours, fragrances, food ingredients, health & bioscience – announced the opening of its Vanilla Innovation Center in Madagascar, reinforcing vanilla as a strategic and priority tonality for IFF and strengthening its ability to innovate at origin.
GNT China

GNT Opens First China Office

GNT has opened a sales and application office in Shanghai to meet demand for plant-based EXBERRY® colours in China.
Tanis Record

Tanis Builds World’s Largest Gummy Mosaic

Tanis used 81,400 gummies from Albanese Candy and now holds a world record.
Apura

Apura Ingredients Celebrates 10 Years

Apura Ingredients, a provider of innovative sweetener solutions, flavor modulation technologies, and custom ingredient services, proudly celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, marking a decade of helping food & beverage manufacturers translate technical innovation into commercial success. 
Tanis Mosaic

Tanis to Attempt New Guinness World Record

In 2023, Tanis set the world record for “largest gummy bear candy.” On Tuesday, April 14, the family-owned company from Oosterhout will once again aim for a new world record by creating the largest jelly/gummy mosaic (image) in the world.
adapa

adapa Group Receives Pap’Award

adapa Group has been awarded the Pap’Award in the category “Circularity in Food Packaging” for its solution PaperFlow(re) P-type. The award, presented by Pap’Argus and Etiq&Pack, recognises the company’s ongoing commitment to advancing circular packaging solutions.
Cargill Site

Cargill’s Baupte site cuts CO2 emissions by 45%

Cargill’s Baupte has reduced total site CO2 emissions by 45% following the modernisation of one of its most energy-intensive production processes.
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