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Confectionery sales in food retail stores (not including Aldi) during the first five calendar weeks of 2006 declined by 1.0% down to € 559.6 m. Comparing full year 2004 and ... SG

Delitzscher Schokoladen GmbH,Delitzsch,is now an independent concern. In future van Netten GmbH,a 90% subsidiary of Jülicher Zucker AG, will no longer be behind the Delitzscher brand name. As MD Werner ... SG

Lotus Bakeries NV, Lembeke, announced a 7.5% increase in REBIT for 2005 up to € 15.5 m. Net profit grew 14.4% up to € 9.6m. Total sales dip ped ... SG

The Swiss sugar confectionery industry reported sales volume growth in 2005 of 4.8%, up to 25,970 tonnes worth CHF 300 m, an increase of 4.4% compared with the previous year’s ... SG

In response to requests from confectionery customers, the National Confectioners Association’s All Candy Expo will undergo changes in 2007. Not only will the Expo move from its traditional June time ... SG

At the beginning of 2006 Walter Heindl Ges m b H,Vienna, took over Pischinger GmbH, also located in Vienna.The Pischinger company,which employs 40 people, is famous above all for wafer ... SG

Barry Callebaut AG, Zurich, has announced organic growth of 2% in sales volume up to almost 300,000 tonnes for the first quarter of the business year 2005/6 (ended 30.11.05). Sales ... SG

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, Chicago, has announced that strong fourth-quarter volume growth produced over $1.2 bn in sales for the quarter and pushed global annual sales up 13% to ... SG

Kraft Foods Inc. has confirmed that the closure of ist Broadmeadows facility in Victoria is scheduled for 31 March 2006,just-food has learnt.The company explained that the closure was part of ... SG

The manufacturing and distribution companies belonging to the Hamburg-based Zertus Group – Dextro Energy, Kalfany and Importhaus Wilms/ Impuls – look forward to a year dominated by sport. Kalfany is ... SG

Italian confectionery giant Ferrero will soon open its first manufacturing plant in the Americas. The plant based in Brantford/Ontario, will serve the Central and North American markets, with 75 per ... SG

In 2005, Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG increased Group sales by around CHF 250 million to CHF 2.247 billion (previous year, restated in accordance with IFRS: CHF 1.995 billion). This ... SG

Chr Storz GmbH & Co KG, Tuttlingen, is Germany’s first confectionery company and one of only three food companies to have achieved ISO 22000 certification.According to the German technical inspection ... SG

Lidl labels its whole range of sugar-free chewing gum with the “Happy Tooth” quality mark. Lidl gum brands Air Freeze, Pix and Jet Gum have successfully passed the scientific tests ... SG

The World Cup in Germany and the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth are two big events in 2006 certain to drive advertising and promotional activity in the consumer goods industry. ... SG