Archives for January 15, 2019

NCA

NCA’s John Downs urges more innovation in chocolate category if it wants to survive and grow

CEO uses speech at Fine Chocolate Industry Association’s Elevate Chocolate event in San Francisco to urge industry to listen to consumer needs’ regarding transparency, sustainability and new flavors.

Q&A

CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS: Brian Watt, owner/MD, Sloane's Hot Chocolate

After 30 years in the corporate world, Brian Watt gave it all up and followed his love for chocolate with startup Sir Hans Sloane Chocolates. The company has five employees and produces its ‘posh hot chocolate' from a studio in the south of England using...

Digimarc and HP to provide every printed object with a unique identity

Digimarc and HP have partnered to provide a Serialized Global Trade Item Number (SGTIN) for individual packaging items, meaning two otherwise identical units of the same product are uniquely identifiable, making it possible to track and trace for brand...

Strike goes ahead at Yorkshire chocolate crumb factory

Workers have taken to the picket line after Unite members voted by 73% to strike at Meadow Foods chocolate crumb factory in Holme on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, UK.