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CNNMoney: Mars kills the King Size Snickersupdated: Fri Feb 17 2012 08:41:00

The end is nigh for the Snickers bar as we know it.

CNNMoney: Nifty Candy grosses a millionupdated: Wed Oct 19 2011 10:33:00

It is every child's dream to own a candy company.

Five decadent spots for chocolate loversupdated: Thu May 26 2011 07:53:00

Traveling to beautiful places is already sweet, but the journeys can get decadent if you succumb to the power of chocolate.

Don't expect a bargain at duty freeupdated: Fri Apr 01 2011 08:41:00

Shopping at a mall that's hidden behind metal detectors and surrounded by airplanes is already exciting. Add the possibility of saving money and fliers know: It's hard to resist the lure of duty free at the airport.

Anti-energy drinks: Relaxation in a canupdated: Wed Feb 09 2011 10:58:00

It's not enough to fizz with carbonation and taste sweet.

Drinkable marijuana to hit shelvesupdated: Wed Feb 09 2011 10:58:00

One company is offering a soda-like version of medical marijuana.

Accused candy store robber's hand ordered cut off by Iranian judgeupdated: Sat Oct 16 2010 19:14:00

An Iranian judge has sentenced a man accused of stealing chocolate and cocoa from a candy shop to have his hand cut off, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday.

People.com: PHOTO: Katy Perry Lounges Naked in a Cotton Candy Cloudupdated: Thu Jul 22 2010 15:14:00

The singer debuts artsy new album cover - that smells as sweet as it looks!

California wine country -- with kids?updated: Tue Jul 06 2010 09:27:00

We're in California's famous wine country -- shopping for frying pans.

Microsoft game lets kids tickle tigersupdated: Mon Jun 14 2010 19:57:00

Microsoft on Monday unveiled the first games for its remote-control-free video game system, Kinect for Xbox 360. Several of the titles were pretty generic: a dancing game, a race car game, an adventure game and a fitness game.

People.com: Taylor Swift Stocks Up on Candy in N.Y.C.updated: Fri May 07 2010 12:13:00

• Taylor Swift is having a sweet New York visit - literally! After meeting Dylan's Candy Bar owner Dylan Lauren at the Met Costume Institute Gala, the country singer stopped into the Upper East Side candy store and picked out some treats, including M&Ms, Milky Way bars and various caramels. Swift also was on the market for some clothes, and visited a local Anthropologie store.

People.com: Nick Cannon's Anniversary Gift to Mariah Carey: Candy Bling!updated: Sun May 02 2010 23:28:00

He gave her a white gold, diamond and sapphire ring that looks like an old fashioned lollipop ring

Study: Chocolate and depression go hand in handupdated: Mon Apr 26 2010 18:36:00

When Dina Khiry is feeling a bit down, she reaches for chocolate. "I like Reese's peanut butter cups, Hershey's bars, and chocolate cake batter," says the 24-year-old public relations associate. "I feel better in the moment -- and then worse later on, when I realize that I just consumed thousands of calories."

UFO sketches releasedupdated: Thu Feb 18 2010 11:07:00

Newly released British government files on UFO sightings contain sketches of unexplained objects.

Britain releases new UFO filesupdated: Thu Feb 18 2010 11:07:00

A hovering Toblerone and a silky-white residue join near-misses and strange lights in the British government's latest release of its files on UFO sightings.

People.com: Five Things About Khloe Kardashian's Beau Lamar Odomupdated: Wed Sep 23 2009 08:48:00

The 6-foot-10-inch L.A. Lakers forward has his own record label and apparel line

CNNMoney: Cadbury says no to Kraftupdated: Tue Sep 08 2009 04:18:00

British candy maker Cadbury has rejected a $16.7 billion offer from U.S. food giant Kraft to merge the companies, according to a statement released Monday.

Cadbury rejects Kraft merger planupdated: Mon Sep 07 2009 06:32:00

British candy maker Cadbury has rejected a £10.2 billion ($16.7 billion) offer from U.S. food giant Kraft to merge the companies, according to a statement released Monday.

People.com: Melissa Joan Hart Opens a Candy Storeupdated: Sun May 31 2009 21:08:00

After losing 42 lbs., the actress promises she'll only eat the shop's non-fat frozen yogurt

UK pubs try to lick noise problem with lollipopsupdated: Fri May 15 2009 12:37:00

Pubs and clubs in southwest England plan to hand out lollipops next week as a way to reduce noise when their customers head home, officials and pub owners said Friday.

Families trimming costs on Colorado ski vacationsupdated: Wed Mar 11 2009 11:20:00

Peppermint s'mores, ice cream sundaes or bright turquoise gummi butterflies?

Sweet satisfaction: Five chocolate toursupdated: Fri Feb 06 2009 08:53:00

Romances come and go, but many a gourmand is in it for life with that addictive cocoa concoction, chocolate.

Sticky situation for cocoa-covered immigration suspectsupdated: Thu Feb 05 2009 06:25:00

UK police found 15 suspected illegal immigrants covered in cocoa powder in the back of a truck that was apparently headed to a Mars chocolate factory, police and border officials said Thursday.

People.com: Michael Phelps Is Letting Himself Goupdated: Mon Dec 15 2008 09:48:00

The Olympian is putting on pounds and enjoying the easy life

Time.com: Cadbury Pulls Melamine-Laced Chocolateupdated: Mon Sep 29 2008 16:00:00

British candy maker Cadbury said Monday it is recalling 11 types of Chinese-made chocolates found to contain melamine, as police in northern China raided a network accused of adding the banned chemical to milk

Cadbury recalls Chinese-made candy in chemical scareupdated: Mon Sep 29 2008 15:52:00

British confectioner Cadbury has recalled all of its Chinese-made candy products over fears that they may be contaminated with the chemical melamine, a company statement said Monday.

Formula fears in U.S.updated: Mon Sep 29 2008 10:57:00

There's little chance that tainted infant formula from China could make it onto U.S. shelves, health officials say.

Time.com: Snickers, M&M Maker Raising Pricesupdated: Thu Aug 21 2008 18:30:00

The maker of Snickers bars and M&Ms candies said it is raising wholesale prices on various items to offset the higher costs of raw materials, packaging and energy, the second major candy company in the past week to announce such a move

Time.com: A Sweet Spot in a Sour Economyupdated: Mon Jun 23 2008 16:30:00

According to many analysts, even a recession can't do much to curb American's love (or willingness to pay) for candy

Time.com: The Man Buried in a Pringles Canupdated: Wed Jun 04 2008 14:00:00

The inventor of the iconic potato chip container got his final wish - he was buried in one

CNNMoney: Sweet deal: Mars to pay $23B for Wrigleyupdated: Mon Apr 28 2008 14:38:00

Popular candy maker Mars Inc. announced Monday it will purchase confectionary giant Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $23 billion.

Time.com: Wrigley Being Bought for Almost $23Bupdated: Mon Apr 28 2008 06:00:00

Candy maker Mars Inc. says it's buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in an all-cash deal valued at almost $23 billion

Money Magazine: Why you're a big suckerupdated: Tue Apr 01 2008 05:27:00

Bet you think you spend money pretty sensibly. Well, Dan Ariely would bet you don't. A noted behavioral economist with current posts at MIT and Duke, Ariely has been proving for years that consumers often spend more when they plan to spend less.

Boy buys candy, gets suspendedupdated: Thu Mar 13 2008 08:39:00

An eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut buys candy at school and finds himself suspended. Affiliate WFSB reports.

People.com: George Clooney: The Sexiest – and Tastiest – Man Aliveupdated: Tue Feb 19 2008 17:43:00

We've heard of wax figures, but what about jelly bean portraits? George Clooney is getting the sweet treatment thanks to Jelly Belly Gourmet Jelly Beans, which has created a likeness of the actor with 10,000 jelly beans. The tasty piece of art will be on display, too, at the company's gifting suite at the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills, just in time for Oscar week. Oh, and ladies, you can look but you still can't touch! – Brian Orloff

Santa stops in Iraqupdated: Mon Dec 24 2007 14:43:00

Santa delivers hundreds of gifts sent to U.S. troops serving in Iraq. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh reports.

Army major answers Christmas call of dutyupdated: Mon Dec 24 2007 14:43:00

Santa strapped on his body armor and sidearm Monday and got an early start on his rounds, taking candy canes and holiday wishes to U.S. troops in Iraq.

Fortune: Ideas made hereupdated: Tue Jun 12 2007 10:02:00

If you happened to go shopping at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chardon, Ohio, about 30 miles outside Cleveland, you might spot two 50-ish guys browsing through the aisles, using their cell phones to...

CNNMoney: Report: Hershey-Cadbury candy combo possibleupdated: Sat Mar 31 2007 09:11:00

A senior Hershey officials said Friday that the chocolate giant is open to the possibility of merging with Cadbury Schweppes' candy business, according to The Wall Street Journal.

FSB: The sweetest Valentine's Day treatsupdated: Wed Feb 14 2007 17:55:00

Innovative Valentine candies made by small companies.

CNNMoney: GM changing robot suicide adupdated: Fri Feb 09 2007 14:12:00

General Motors has decided to change an ad that had shown an assembly-line robot throwing itself off a bridge after making a mistake, two days after it said it was sticking with the spot in the face of criticism.

CNNMoney: GM sticking with robot suicide adupdated: Thu Feb 08 2007 07:52:00

A suicide prevention group is calling on General Motors to pull an ad which shows an assembly line robot throwing itself off a bridge after making a mistake, but the automaker is sticking with the spot.

SI.com: Long way to goupdated: Wed Feb 07 2007 16:39:00

We've been patting ourselves on the back lately, celebrating how much progress the sports world has made in terms of racial equality. We're supposedly so colorblind that when two African-American coaches reached the Super Bowl last week, the general reaction was, "What? Dungy and Lovie are black? I hadn't noticed."

CNNMoney: Snickers pulls plug on Super Bowl smooch adupdated: Tue Feb 06 2007 13:23:00

After a number of groups objected, Masterfoods USA, the maker of Snickers candy bars, has pulled the plug on a controversial Super Bowl commercial that showed two men accidentally kissing.

CNNMoney: M&M's maker to stop marketing to kidsupdated: Mon Feb 05 2007 12:05:00

Confectionery giant Masterfoods, which makes Milky Way and Snickers candy bars as well as M&M's chocolates, says it will stop marketing its core products to children under the age of 12 by the end of this year. (See correction.)

FSB: Sweet Spotsupdated: Thu Feb 01 2007 00:01:00

Plush Puffs Marshmallows $8 for six

Halloween treats can find a home in low-fat dessertsupdated: Tue Oct 31 2006 08:47:00

The problem with most candy bars and cookies is that they're too small to be full-fledged desserts -- but not if they become part of the dessert.

Fortune: This car saved Fordupdated: Thu Jun 08 2006 10:32:00

Call it the $3 billion jellybean. When the Taurus debuted in 1985, its curves and sweeping lines made it different. So was the team that created it. Desperate after losing $1.5 billion in 1980, For...

Istanbul City Guideupdated: Thu Feb 02 2006 11:20:00

Check out The Scene's recommendations for Turkey's cultural and historic capital and send us your ideas and suggestions below.

Fortune: Hey, boss, pass the Twizzlers! updated: Mon Oct 31 2005 00:01:00

The next time you go to a movie theater, you could be on the clock. Faced with declining audiences, theater operators are targeting a whole new market: corporate offsites. Companies from Bear Stear...

The sweet life updated: Mon Aug 08 2005 12:36:00

Dylan Lauren is a self-proclaimed kid in a candy shop. Luckily for her, she owns it.

CNNMoney: Cocoa as a diabetes treatment?updated: Mon Jul 25 2005 06:10:00

Take two M&M's and call me in the morning?

CNNMoney: Bazooka Joe hotter than Mickey Mantle?updated: Wed Mar 23 2005 14:07:00

there's some good stuff here and it's well written, but i got more than halfway in and still had no idea about their longer-term financial track record. (other than that sales are volatile sales and they're profitable, which I had to assume since they have a P/E, 4th graf). is it feast or famine with them, which it sort of seems to be? or has there been steady growth interrupted by hot years and some lean years? etc... a better sense of this up top would help.

Fortune: EASTER BASKET CASESupdated: Mon Mar 21 2005 00:01:00

THE MOST POLARIZING TIME of year is upon us: Easter. In places of worship, homes, and schools, debate rages over a fundamental question: Are Marshmallow Peeps good or evil?

FSB: Chocolate Boresupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00

Adam Smith was once the sort of fellow who enjoyed regular old candy—a Snickers, say, or a Hershey bar. Nowadays, with his palate all grown up, the 37-year-old derides those American chocolates for...

Business 2.0: 7-Eleven Gets Sophisticatedupdated: Sat Jan 01 2005 00:01:00

There's something familiar about the place, with its muted orange-and-green color scheme. The aisles are wider, though, and the displays tonier. Chilling in the fridge is the house Chardonnay, not ...

CNNMoney: Chocoholic beware: Prices going upupdated: Thu Dec 16 2004 12:32:00

Getting a chocolate fix is about to get more expensive.

CNNMoney: Candy goes to pot: reportupdated: Tue Dec 14 2004 13:04:00

New York City lawmakers have condemned the sale of Chronic Candy, a marijuana-flavored lollipop and gumdrop line that claims "every lick is like taking a hit," a newspaper report said Tuesday.

CNNMoney: 'Tis the season to be tacky?updated: Wed Dec 01 2004 13:18:00

If your neighbor installs an 8-foot tall inflatable Santa in the front yard every December, look on the bright side: At least that plastic Mr. Claus isn't mooning anyone.

The crowd is smarter than you thinkupdated: Wed Jul 14 2004 08:10:00

What do jellybeans, a downed submarine, the SARS epidemic and the development of the U.S. auto industry have in common?

Money Magazine: Hersheyupdated: Thu Jul 01 2004 00:01:00

SWEET Have you noticed a whole bunch more choices at the candy counter lately? There are Hershey's Kisses in dark chocolate, caramel or almond. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups come in white, dark, insid...

CNNMoney: Shrek, Spiderman take on candylandupdated: Thu Jun 03 2004 11:11:00

Hot in 2004: The swampy green bobble-head Shrek candy dispenser, the Brain Drain liquid candy that's supposed to feel like "brains rollin' around in your mouth," and low-carb sweets.

CNNMoney: A heart-warming Valentine's Dayupdated: Fri Feb 13 2004 10:09:00

Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and for those of you who want to get a bit more creative with gifts this year, we have some ideas.

FSB: Innovators Hall of Fame A LOOK AT THE LEGENDARY ENTREPRENEURS WHO CHANGED THEIR INDUSTRIES... AND THE WORLDupdated: Tue Oct 01 2002 00:01:00

Every entrepreneur dreams that his brilliant idea will change the world. Throughout this issue, you've read stories of people who are accomplishing that goal today. But let's step back for a moment...

FSB: See's Candy Lollypops THE TRICK TO A HAPPY HALLOWEEN?updated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00

Set out a bowl of penny candy for the kids and buy some good stuff for yourself. Our suggestion--lollypops from See's Candies, the venerable West Coast confectioner founded in 1921 and long famous ...

FSB: Burt and Irv's Place Meet the early pioneers of extravagant excess.updated: Sat Jul 01 2000 00:01:00

Whom can we blame for our nation's descent into gluttony? Pin at least some of it on brothers-in-law and business partners Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. The two harbored a most innocent ambition in ...

Fortune: IN MOSCOW, "RED OCTOBER" MEANS CHOCOLATE COMEBACK OF A VENERABLE RUSSIAN CANDYMAKERupdated: Mon Jun 09 1997 00:01:00

The "Snickersization" of Russia is over. After experimenting with the delights and delicacies of all brands Western in the first few years of the post-Soviet era, Russians have begun shifting their...

Fortune: THE ECLIPSE OF MARS When you run a $13 billion privately held company, you answer to no one -- except the market. But are the Maupdated: Mon Nov 28 1994 00:01:00

TO STEAL, and mangle, a phrase from Churchill, Mars Inc. is an enigma inside a mystery tied up in a bright candy wrapper. We are all familiar with its branded products -- Snickers, M&M's, Milky Way...

Fortune: NESTLE'S BRAND BUILDING MACHINE The Swiss powerhouse is racing across the developing world building brands, roads, farms, factorupdated: Mon Sep 19 1994 00:01:00

PRICE CHECK, Aisle Four! Frozen squid tentacles and Nescafe Cappuccino." If selling in the developing world sounds like a job for a man and a donkey, it's time to have a look at what's happening at...

Fortune: GROSS IS GOODupdated: Mon Sep 05 1994 00:01:00

Tried any SNOT lately? How about Pond Scum? Maybe you'd enjoy some Wurmz-N- Dirt. Novelty candy items that foam and pop, turn the tongue blue, and gross out grownups are where the action is in the ...

Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon Jan 10 1994 00:01:00

TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES This 97-year-old Chicago company has found that, in the candy business at least, oldies-but-goodies are reliable sources of growth. Much of Tootsie Roll Industries' consider...

Fortune: LAUNCHING IN A STORM Why start up in a collapsing industry? Says Bill Higgs: ''We didn't want to look back someday and say, Why updated: Mon Aug 09 1993 00:01:00

Amid the deepening oil slump six years ago, three engineers in Houston sat in front of their drafting boards worrying about their jobs. Today Paul E. Redmon, 39, William G. Higgs, 41, and Felix W. ...

Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 05 1993 00:01:00

BOUNCE BOOTS The first thing you notice when wearing Exerlopers is that you bound along like an astronaut on the moon when you're running in them. But that's not the real point, says the maker, Nor...

Money Magazine: TOOTSIE ROLL SEEMS TO BE ON A ROLLupdated: Thu Nov 01 1990 00:01:00

Health fads come and go, but not the American sweet tooth. Over the past decade, in fact, Americans' per capita consumption of candy has risen from 17 to 20 pounds a year. Because of those steadily...

Fortune: BACCY BARONS GET SWEET TEETHupdated: Mon Jul 30 1990 00:01:00

Kicking the tobacco habit can be tough, but not for Bennett LeBow, an investor who owns 83% of the Liggett Group (best known for its L&M cigarettes), and Edward Horrigan, former vice chairman of RJ...

Fortune: THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESSupdated: Mon Apr 24 1989 00:01:00

You can almost get a cavity by breathing the air near the plant on East Chocolate Avenue. It's worth the risk, say some security analysts, who are advising investors to follow their noses to Hershe...

Fortune: NESTLE SHOWS HOW TO GOBBLE MARKETS The world's No. 1 food company wrote the book on global expansion: Think long term, adapt proupdated: Mon Jan 16 1989 00:01:00

THE WORLD'S largest food company is showing a feisty will to stay on top. Boasts Nestle Chief Executive Helmut Maucher: ''We're No. 1 and we're rejoicing!'' Maucher has transformed the once letharg...

Fortune: UNCOVERING MARS' UNKNOWN EMPIRE They are America's richest family, who got to be worth $12.5 billion by selling sweets and susteupdated: Mon Sep 26 1988 00:01:00

MARS INC. is the black hole of the packaged goods universe -- so powerful and large that it influences all the other objects in its system, yet so secretive and dense that not so much as a lumen of...

Fortune: Do your bit to help: Eat more chocolateupdated: Mon May 09 1988 00:01:00

There's an awful lot of cocoa in Brazil. And in Malaysia and in West Africa. Gill & Duffus Group, a London commodities firm, forecasts a 1987-88 world crop of 2.1 million metric tons. That's about ...

Fortune: A Chocolate Treatupdated: Mon Jan 04 1988 00:01:00

Guess who makes Tootsie Rolls. No, it isn't one of those big food conglomerates about to do an LBO. The answer is Tootsie Roll Industries. For over 90 years the Chicago-based company has been churn...

Fortune: BAR WARS: HERSHEY BITES MARS With aggressive marketing and a line of new products for grownups, Hershey has caught up with Mars updated: Mon Jul 08 1985 00:01:00

HERSHEY AND MARS are engaged in a brutal, back-and-forth battle to be No. 1 in the $8-billion-a-year U.S. candy market. Mars deposed Hershey as candy king in the early 1970s, and by the end of the ...

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