May 20-22, 2009 McCormick Place, Chicago

The All Candy Expo was a great show to see.  The show featured manufacturing companies for mostly confectionery products with some participation from snackfood companies.  The snackfoods and confectionery segments are some of the few items that continue to see sales growth despite the economic turmoil.

Some of the highlights were mostly for chocolate products, these included:

1. Higher percentage of cocoa content = dark and darker chocolate
2. Functional inclusions: probiotic, omega oils, antioxidants, fibre
3. Exciting flavours geared for adults: wine flavours, spices
4. Frutis in chocolate: air dried or powders etc.
5. Peanut butter

Most innovative: Le Whif  (Each cylinder contains 1 calorie of chocolate taken in two puffs.    Drawback: plastic packaging and messy when opened. 

Overall, it was a great show but the loot bag was too small to hold all the freebies!  

 

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