AVK Confectionery, Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . 52The Belgian, Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Big Sky Brands, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Chocolat Frey AG, Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 52Chocolat Stella, Switzerland . . . . . . . . . 52, 54Chocolates Garoto SA, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . 54Chocolaterie Duc d’O, Belgium . . . . . . . . . 54Chocolaterie Guylian NV, Belgium . . . . . . . 54Chocolatier Vanden Meerssche, Belgium . 54Chocomint Industrie, Netherlands . . . . . . . 54Dextro Energy GmbH, Germany . . . . . . . . 54Dragee Hatziyiannakis, Greece . . . . . . . . . . 55Durukan, Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Embaré, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55European Chocolate Ltd., USA . . . . . . . . . . 55Fida S.R.L., Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Galler America, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Geodi S.A., Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 56

Grupo Bimbo, Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Guylian USA, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Harald, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Ion, Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Island Abbey Foods Ltd., Canada . . . . . . . . 56Jelly Belly Candy Co., USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Josef Manner, Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 57Kalfany, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Kraft Foods, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Kraš d.d. Food Industry, Croatia . . . . . . . . . 57Lakrids by Johan Bülow, Denmark . . . . . . . 57Lindt & Sprüngli, Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 57Lotte Co., Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58LSP Sporternährung, Germany . . . . . . . . . . 58Martin’s Confectionery, UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Messori Cioccolateria, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Montevérgine, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58NewTree, Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58J.G. Niederegger, Germany . . . . . . . . . 58, 59

Panda Oy, Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Peccin S.A., Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Pez International, Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Ragolds, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Riclan, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Ricola, Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Ritter Sport, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 61Russell Stover, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Salzburg Schokolade GmbH, Austria . . . . . 61Sánchez Cano, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Shantou Sunrise Food Co., China . . . . . . . 61Shenzhen Unisky International, China . . . . 61Stollwerck, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 62Sweet Co., Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Trolli, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Valor, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62VDA Pifarré, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Zentis, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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Products Introduced at ISM

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ISM, the International Sweets and Biscuits Fair in Cologne, Germany, recently

featured 1,412 supplier exhibitors. Approximately 35,000 trade visitors came to

ISM from 130 countries.

The number of visitors from Asia rose substantially, with particularly large

increases recorded for Japan, Korea and China. Larger numbers of visitors were

also registered from North, Central and South America, as well as from the Mid-

dle East. The turnout from eastern Europe, particularly from Russia, was once

again quite positive.

New ideas included products sweetened with stevia or pure honey confec-

tionery. Flavor combinations on the rise included cocoa and fruits, marzipan

and champagne, and licorice and fruit flavors. Products mimicking alcoholic

beverages (with and without alcohol) in chocolates, and dessert creations in

confections such as apple strudel, black forest cake and chocolate mousse

were exhibited. The use of cookies (biscuits) in confectionery like Oreo, specu-

loos and brownies helped to make new flavor combinations in products as

well as a new twist on old favorites. A push toward natural colors and flavors

with the use of radish, sweet potato, hibiscus, carrot and cucurbit and the use

of popular soft drink brand names and flavors in products are also widely used

by companies in their creations.

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