This Halloween season, SNICKERS®, TWIX® and M&M'S® will release three products just in time for the spooky season: SNICKERS FUN SIZE® and TWIX FUN SIZE® Ghoulish Green Bars and M&M'S Mad Scientist Mix, allowing shoppers to treat themselves and others all season.

Mars Wrigley broke ground on a new, best-in-class, global research and development hub adjacent to the company's existing Global Innovation Center on Goose Island. Leaders from Mars as well as key Chicago stakeholders, including Michael Fassnacht, CEO, World Business Chicago, and Alderman Walter Burnett Jr., gathered together to commemorate the milestone for the company.

Push Pop Gummy Pop-its, launching under the Push Pop brand, features gummies coupled with an interactive, refillable container that makes the experience a treat from start-to-finish.

The Sweets & Snacks Expo showcases the latest products and innovations in candy and snacks, and for the past 25 years, those products have made it onto store shelves and paved the way for groundbreaking flavor trends in the industry and beyond. 

Each chewlet in the Infrusions Orchard Mix provides a vibrant flavor burst with each bite, leaving consumers craving the juicy new taste. This fresh, more intense flavor journey features three enhanced fruit offerings.

The dissolving stickers are 100% natural with a tapioca base that kids say tastes like marshmallows or cotton candy. StickyLickits do not contain sugar, additives, or allergens like soy, dairy, or peanuts.

Bazooka Candy Brands, a division of The Bazooka Companies, Inc., introduced the latest extension of its Juicy Drop® line with new Juicy Drop Remix, chewy candies in an innovative, fun-to-use container. The unique packaging features both sweet and sour bite-sized candies.

All Jelly Belly jelly beans are OU Kosher and vegetarian friendly. They’re also free of gluten, peanuts, dairy and fat.

The  National Confectioners Association announced that its Sweets & Snacks Expo will make a historic move to host the premier trade show for the confectionery and snack industries in a rotation between Indianapolis and Las Vegas over the next 10 years. 

For manufacturers, it’s good that one-third of American consumers say they have snacked more often during the past 12 months according to Innova Market Insights’ 2021 Lifestyle & Attitudes Survey. That’s in contrast to the 24% who said they snacked less.