Posts Tagged ‘Confectionary Events’

After touring the Winter Fancy Food Show, held mid-January in San Francisco, I was struck by how little product innovation was on display. Perhaps this is a reflection of the effect of the lingering recession, when companies tend to retool back to value-based products using familiar themes. Or maybe it’s timing: confectioners are mid-point through their busy season, running from Halloween to Valentine’s Day, and don’t have much spare R&D bandwidth. Normally, new organic and natural confectionery products are launched in March at Natural Products West and for premium confections in July at the Summer Fancy Food Show. That said, (more…)