Brach’s was founded in 1904 by German immigrant Emil J. Bach and has since changed hands several times over the years. Currently (2007), Brach’s was acquired by Farley’s & Sathers Candy Company and has continued to hold the brand name of it’s creator who pioneered several candy selling methods. Including the “Pick a Mix” style [...]

It won’t improve your credit score or bail out any banks, but Selfridges & Co have found a way to cash in on the crisis, with chocolate! As we all know, folks tend to turn towards food and especially chocolate to nurse their woes and what better way then with chocolate designed especially to go [...]

Recently the Mars company has made one of it’s boldest moves in an attempt to capture the crown of #1 Chocolate King of America from the Hershey company by opening a new shop (the Dove Chocolate Center of Excellence) just 10miles away from Hershey’s flagship set up in Pennsylvania. This comes hot off the heels [...]

Cadbury Chocolates, an all time favorites of mine (how can you not love the creme egg every Easter) has had to recall 11 different chocolate candy items from shelves due to melamine tainting in their Beijing, China factory. The affected chocolates are: Cadbury Dark Chocette, Cadbury Eclairs, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut [...]

Once upon a time in 1893 Frederick William Rueckheim and his brother Louis, mass produced and sold at the Chicago World’s Fair, “candied popcorn and peanuts.” Which would later on garner the name of Cracker Jacks. Now Cracker Jacks aren’t chocolate, but they are candied and well, it’s time someone said something about them. I [...]