Tag: Chocolate

Retail Asia14/02/2024
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Luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has launched its first chocolate store outside France, in Singapore. The chocolates, offered at Marina Bay Sands’ Louis Vuitton Island Maison boutique, are inspired by award-winning pastry chef Maxime Frédéric and prepared with ingredients including hazelnuts harvested on his farm in Normandy. The store’s design features yellow as the main […]

Retail Asia21/06/2023
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Australian confectioner Ernest Hillier Chocolates has appointed voluntary administrators to sell off its business and related entities. Established in 1914, the company is Australia’s oldest chocolate brand and operates a manufacturing facility in Coburg, Victoria. Its Ernest Hillier and Newman’s brands have been stocked across supermarkets for many years. Administrators Alan Walker and Glenn Livingstone […]

Retail Asia03/05/2023
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Italian chocolate maker Ferrero will add two new frozen treats to Woolworth’s freezer aisles later this month. The range – which allows Aussies to enjoy Ferrero Rocher and Raffaello on a stick for the first time –  comes in two flavours: chocolate hazelnut and coconut. “Our experts have spent years crafting these recipes inspired by […]

Retail Asia29/03/2023
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Confectionary giant Ferrero has rolled out a new Kinder Bueno chocolate range for Easter. The company described its new range as “addictive as they sound” and “filled with zero regrets”. “What’s more important than winning your family’s easter egg hunt?” said the chocolatier. “We make sure you arrive with the ultimate chocolate advantage to entice […]

Retail Asia07/06/2022
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Nestlé Australia has announced that KitKat will be Australia’s “first” chocolate bar with a wrapper using recycled plastic. More than 40 million 45g KitKat bars will be packed in the 30% recycled content wrapper in the next year, cutting virgin plastic use by around 250,000sqm. Nestlé Oceania General Manager Chris O’Donnell says the company is […]

Retail Asia25/11/2021
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Mandolé Orchard has expanded its range with the launch of Chocolate Almond Milk, Coconut Almond Milk, and Smooth Almond Butter. According to the brand, the three new products not only celebrate its “signature goodness and commitment to wholesome products but deliver something for everyone – even the fussiest of tastebuds”. Low in sugar and “completely […]

Retail Asia16/09/2021
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Italian brand Ferrero has moved another step towards sustainability with the launch of its new eco-designed box for the Ferrero Rocher range. After trialing 29 different plastics and working with leading materials expert Milliken, the new packaging is sourced from polypropylene (PP), which is easy to recycle and can help reduce the use of plastic […]

Retail Asia22/06/2021
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Confectionery company Robert Menz has added a new variety to its FruChocs range, the White Choc Raspberry. Rolling out in supermarkets this month, the new chocolate combines “sumptuous tangy real apricot centres mixed with a sweet, natural raspberry flavor in luscious white chocolate coating”. The chocolatier will launch the 135g White Choc Raspberry FruChoc in […]

Retail Asia11/05/2021
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Confectionery brand Kinder has rolled out Kinder Happy Hippo biscuits in Australian supermarkets. The hippo-shaped biscuits have a crispy wafer shell with a creamy filling and coated in meringue sprinkles. Kinder Happy Hippo comes in two flavors – Cocoa and Hazelnut – in bite-sized snack packaging. “Happy Hippo delivers the signature Kinder taste and quality […]

Retail Asia04/02/2020
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Japanese chocolatier Royce is shuttering its operations in South Korea. The brand’s local retailer Royce’ Confect Korea said in an announcement last Wednesday that it will close all nine of its locations in the territory, including five shops in Seoul. The closures will be completed by the end of next month. Sales for the brand’s […]

Retail Asia27/12/2019
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Nestle-owned global chocolate brand KitKat is running a pop-up concept at SM Megamall in Manila until December 25. Called KitKat Chocolatory, the concept store allows customers to customize their own KitKat creations by choosing from a range of ingredients including almonds, macadamias and pretzels. It also offers limited edition local flavors such as mango graham, […]

Retail Asia07/10/2019
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A Dandelion Chocolate boutique has launched in a century-old house in Kyoto, Japan. Dandelion Chocolate is a bean-to-bar craft chocolatier that operates small-scale locations throughout the US and Japan. The San Francisco brand hired Fumihiko Sano Studio to create the 200sqm outlet’s design, which was shortlisted for this year’s Dezeen Awards. The two-storey interior in […]

Retail Asia14/08/2019
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Krakakoa, which was established to improve the livelihoods of Indonesian cocoa farmers by buying directly from them, has raised funds from Singapore-based impact investors. The bean-t0-bar chocolate maker has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), LIC VC and SYSTEMIQ co-founder Jeremy Oppenheim, the firm said in a statement on Friday. The chocolate maker said […]


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