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Article: 'Choc' full of finds: the 38th International Sweets and Biscuits Fair (ISM) featured a record-breaking number of exhibitors (1,675) this year, many of which offered variations on ongoing trends in the industry, such as dark chocolate, health, premiumization and organic.(ISM COVERAGE)
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- Candy Industry
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Anyone trying to walk the five exhibition halls (encompassing 110,000 sq. meters) at ISM in Cologne, Germany, this past January would have had a hard time avoiding chocolate, much less sampling an exotic piece of theobroma. After all, with 784 chocolate manufacturers offering everything from chocolate wrapped in a Kentucky tobacco leaf to enhance flavor (Cuorenero Barrique Chocolate from the Sugar Co.) to beer-flavored truffles (Original Kulmbacher Beer truffles from Esther Confiserie), it was rather evident that "chocolate is the new black (or brown or white)."
Of course, the seemingly "anything" goes in chocolate trend dovetailed nicely with several ongoing ...