Sweets showed impressive growth, but in terms of other segments within sugar confectionery, gum suffered a dramatic loss of sales in 2009 and mints are in a long term decline, finds a new YouGov Sixth Sense report on the UK confectionery market.

In 2009 the value of the total UK snacking confectionery market reached £4.9bn, which was an increase of around 4 per cent on the previous year, notes the publication, with the market analysts predicting that further growth this year will take the ...

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Italian confectioner Perfetti van Melle has decided to close one of  Chupa Chups factories in Spain.Production at the site in Villamayor, which employs 121 staff, will move to a second facility in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, north-west of Barcelona.

"The decision has been taken in order to adapt production capacity to global market demand, forcing the company to rationalise its industrial structure in Spain in order to ensure its competitiveness and thus to maintain production in the country," t...

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