SINCE 1921 November 2004 BUSINESS NEWS THE MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONER — The Global Leader in Confectionery Information Ferrero Group to build plant in Canada The Ferrero Group has announced with a projected completion date details of its plans to construct a of mid 2006. plant in Brantford, Canada. Ferrero Rocher will be the first The chocolate maker will invest product made at the facility. an estimated $150 million in a The Ferrero Group employs more 600,000-square-foot manufactur- than 16,000 people at 16 manufac- ing facility that initially will turing plants in Italy, Germany, employ approximately 600 people, France, Holland, Belgium, Ecuador, company representative Franco Argentina, Brazil, Australia and the Veglio said. United States. The factory site is large enough to The company was established in double the size of the plant, which 1946 by Pietro Ferrero in Alba, Italy. Veglio said the company hopes to do It continues to be privately owned over the next three to five years. by the Ferrero family and makes Plans are to have the plant’s Kinder Surprise, Nutella, Tic Tac and shell constructed before winter Kinder Bueno. Fannie May stores open Fannie May Confections, Inc., has mark Fannie May location at begun the process of opening 47 Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue retail locations from mid-October in downtown Chicago, Illinois. through November 19. Forty-one Prepackaged Fannie May candies, stores will be in Illinois, two in Wis- such as Pixies, Mint Meltaways and consin and four in Indiana. Trinidads, also continue to be avail- The schedule of openings will lead able through retail outlets like Jewel, up to the grand opening of the land- Dominick’s and Walgreen’s. Hershey plans for Chicago retail experience Companies in the News Hershey’s Chicago, a 3,600-square- Consumers will find Hershey Cocoa Processing Co. Ltd. 10 Machinefabriek P.M. Duyvis . 15 foot interactive retail experience, will products, the latest in new snacks Fannie May Confections, Inc. 7 open in spring of 2005 on Chicago, and one-of-a-kind items found Ferrero Group . 7 Illinois’ Magnificent Mile. only at Hershey’s Chicago. Visitors Haribo GmbH & Co. 8 Hershey’s Chicago combines will be able to customize cookies, Hershey Foods . 7, 10, 13, 14 Hershey’s Times Square (which cupcakes and brownies at the Marich Confectionery . 16 Stephany’s Chocolates . 13 opened in 2002) and Hershey’s “Hershey-ized” bake shop. Sugar Sugar, Inc. 13 Chocolate World (located in Her- Hershey’s Chicago will be Tesco . 16 shey, Pennsylvania, USA), with an located at 820 North Michigan Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company . 13, 16 atmosphere unique to Chicago. Avenue. The Manufacturing Confectioner • November 2004 7.