November 2012 BUSINESS NEWS MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONER —Global Source for Chocolate, Confectionery and Biscuit Information

Nestlé produces at plant Following a multimillion-pound plier, although con - investment in new equipment, tinued to be made at the factory. dark chocolate is being made Now the company says that once again at Nestlé’s York fac - plant improvements and greater tory, in England. efficiencies have freed up capac - The factory had produced dark ity within the factory to allow the chocolate for many decades until production of dark chocolate to 2007, when the site underwent a return and about 8,000 metric major restructuring and the tons will be made per year in the capacity to make it was lost. modern part of the factory. The chocolate used to be man - The chocolate will be used in ufactured in one of the factory’s York to make 70 percent older buildings at the site, which Dark , with the remainder being was demolished to make way for taken by tanker to other factories a redevelopment of the land. elsewhere to be used in making Nestlé decided to source dark Quality Street, and chocolate from a third-party sup - .

Island Princess acquires Asano of Hawaii Companies in the News Macadamia nut candy manufac - Miki Travel, Lani International Bimo ...... 7 Amer. Assoc. of Candy Techn...... 10 turer Island Princess has acquired Travel, TTA Inc., JCB Interna - Asano of Hawaii ...... 7 the wholesale gifts company tional and Nippon Travel Agency. Buffett’s Candy ...... 19 Asano of Hawaii. Island Princess has renamed the Cargill ...... 12 The acquisition gives Island omiyage company Asano Gifts of Fine Chocolate Industry Assoc...... 18 Heirloom Cacao Preservation Initiative 18 Princess a stake in the wholesale Hawaii. Both companies are The Hershey Co...... 8, 17 business of selling omiyage — the owned by Purdyco Ltd., which Island Princess ...... 7 gifts that Japanese travelers take also owns Island Princess’s Lindt & Sprüngli ...... 8, 14 National Confectioners Assoc ...... 16 home — and participation in macadamia nut candy factory, as Nestlé ...... 7, 10 Asano’s relationships with such well as a 1,100-acre orchard and PMCA ...... 10 major tour companies as Jal - processing facility in Keeau on the Purdy’s Chocolates ...... 10 The Topps Co...... 10 pak International Hawaii, Kin - Big Island and Orchard Heights Wolfgang Candy ...... 17 tetsu International Hawaii, HIS, Winery in Salem, Oregon.

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