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The Chocolate Maker That Burned Down, Then Went Sugar-Free
A five-alarm fire took Barchemy's main plant in 2022. Three years later the Donora, Pennsylvania ingredient shop runs three facilities, quietly supplies the chocolate inside better-for-you bars, and has private equity money behind it.
The €1.5 Billion Company Hiding Inside Your Dessert Case
IRCA Group does not sell the cake. It sells the confidence that the cake will rise, shine and taste the same on the thousandth batch - a century-old Italian formula now scaled across 19 factories and more than 7,000 products.
How Ferrero Turned a Hazelnut Shortage Hack Into a $22 Billion Snack Empire
The family behind Nutella spent eight decades turning scarcity into a system: invent a distinctive product, control the details, and give it time to become a ritual. Now Ferrero is applying that playbook to everything from protein wafers to Froot Loops.
See's Candies
A century after Mary See's face first went on the box, the California chocolatier remains Warren Buffett's favorite lesson in what a brand is worth.
Incredo
Incredo (formerly DouxMatok) is a foodtech company that makes real cane and beet sugar taste sweeter, letting food manufacturers cut sugar by 30-50% without artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols or a change in taste, mouthfeel or texture. Its patented Incredo Sugar binds sugar to a natural carrier so it dissolves and reaches taste receptors more efficiently, and because it is still sugar it can be labeled cleanly. Founded in Israel in 2014 and rebranded to Incredo in 2023 alongside a $30M Series C, the company works B2B with confectionery, bakery and spread makers to reformulate everyday sweet products.