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Meet the Mars family, heirs to the Snickers and M&M's candy empire, who avoided the limelight for years

Mon, 05/20/2024 - 17:38

Tech Insider : Economy

The Mars family — including Jacqueline Mars and her granddaughters, pictured here — is worth an estimated $117 billion as of February 2024, Forbes estimates.
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Retail, economy, Features, family-dynasties, Snickers, Candy, richest-families

A Reimagined 'Willy's Chocolate Experience' Is Coming to America

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 18:34

Gizmodo

A recreation of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” the AI-generated Willy Wonka fiasco in Glasgow that left kids crying and forced the police to be called, appears to be selling tickets for its American debut.

willys chocolate experience, Chocolate, eventbrite, nestle candy shop, wonka, kristy paterson, charlie and the chocolate factory

Why melted bugs on candy and lemons fuel a $167 million industry

Fri, 03/15/2024 - 10:40

Tech Insider : Travel

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Retail, Travel, Video, big-business, video-format-big-business, shellac, supply-chain

His artisanal marshmallows were the greatest. Then he tried to scale them.

Sun, 03/03/2024 - 06:47

Tech Insider : Business

A factory making square shaped marshmallows — Liam Eisenberg for BI

Jon Sebastiani saw fancy marshmallows for the first time in Paris, and thought they looked like money.

Retail, Enterprise, Discourse, Food, Food, Candy, candy-making

Fans of now-discontinued Fruit Stripe gum are joking online that the treat was the best few seconds of their lives

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 12:39

Tech Insider

close-up of sticks of striped gum — Stock image of striped gum similar to Fruit Stripe.
BWFolsom/Getty Images

Retail, speed-desk, chewing-gum, Candy, childhood, insider-news

Homesick Americans living in the UK should head to Costco for snacks

Sat, 11/11/2023 - 06:50

Tech Insider

The candy aisle at Costco in London, featuring Welch's Fruit Snacks, Red Vines, Skittles, Trolls, Mike & Ike — Costco sells come American brands not commonly available in the UK.
Will Martin/Insider

Retail, Retail, Costco, kraft, baked-beans, tea, Heinz

No, California didn't ban Skittles. Here's what it did ban.

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 04:30

Tech Insider

Bags of skittles on a shelf — Rumors are swirling that Skittles are going to be banned in California, but they aren't true.
Mario Tama/Getty Images

Retail, Law, Skittles, Candy, California, gavin-newsom, titanium-dioxide

Sci-Fi Cat Game Stray Is Being Turned Into a New Movie

Wed, 09/06/2023 - 10:00

Gizmodo

We could be getting that Godzilla Apple TV+ show sooner than you’d think. Get another new look at the Kaiju No. 8 anime. Plus, a look at the anime adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s unfinished manga, Phoenix, and what’s coming on Quantum Leap season 2. Spoilers now!