For seven years, between 1998 to 2006, I was a foot soldier in China's chocolate war, first as an executive with Hershey , and later Nestle, two of the world's largest manufacturers and marketers ...

SUZHOU, China – In a cavernous white building filled with huge bubbling vats, clattering conveyor belts and the luscious aroma of melted chocolate, a Swiss tradition is being transplanted, cocoa ...

The emerging China market was a level playing field for chocolate companies when they arrived during the 1980s and 1990s. Chinese consumers viewed chocolate as an exotic foreign product, so each ...

With chocolate consumption on the rise in China, Mars Inc. is opening up a Shanghai branch of its M&M's store, like the one in New York's Times Square.

Beijing - Michelangelo's David stands proud next to the Eiffel Tower in a Chinese display, flanked by the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army - all made of chocolate. The edible exhibit reflects ...

On China's version of Valentine's Day, big international chocolate makers like Hershey are not feeling the love. ...

Swiss chocolate's reputation influences how people rate it in taste tests, a new study shows. When consumers are told that they're about to eat a chocolate bar from Switzerland, they prefer it to ...

ViralPress. Watch how chocolate donuts are cooked in China. Posted: February 4, 2025 | Last updated: February 4, 2025. Footage shows a baker demonstrating how chocolate doughnuts are prepared.

"What we've done in this country is tell a bunch of Oompa Loompas that we're gonna make the chocolate in China now," he said. "They had a community, they had a life, they had things going on.

But China's current per capita chocolate consumption is very low at about 100 grams a person, compared with more than 10 kilograms in Europe. Even in Japan and South Korea, the figure is close to 2kg.

People visit Zotter Chocolate Theatre in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 24, 2022. Since participating in the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in 2018, Austrian Zotter Chocolate has been ...

On Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, Russian influencers based in China rushed to expose what they called “fake Russian goods. “I’ve never seen these candies in Russia. The packaging is ...