130 1890-2020 Celebrating
of leading confectionery journalism
Years
EDITOR’S LETTER contd...
...the confections they bought for other
people for presents. Don’t forget also to visit our other Partners at iSM: the German Pavilion too, Hall 10.2 D50 and the Belgium Pavilion in Hall 4.2 where this issue of the magazine is also available to hand out on an exclusive basis. Did you know that the University of
Reading, UK has come up with another potential and ingenious way of reducing sugar in chocolate by 44%? So, we asked them to tell us exactly what they came up with (Page 54).
As many of you may already know, I have been touring Ecuador last month with my son Leon Kennedy, (our New-Wizz kid Digital Editor) where I interviewed the Minister of Agriculture for Ecuador on cocoa farming and the challenges they face in this sector. Fascinating, I thought, as Ecuador is calling openly for change in the sector sighting one of the problems of poverty for our six million cocoa farmers being that cocoa is a commodity. How do we change that one?! (Page 48). One of the obvious ways to combat this is to grind and or to make your own chocolate, and this is exactly what the company Hacienda San José has done. I went to meet the family in Ecuador whom, after 97 years of growing cocoa, now make chocolate, lovely family and a great chocolate too. How did they do it? Find out in our exclusive cover story. (Page 12). In the meantime, it’s 130 years of
AWARDED ‘GROUP EDITOR OF THE YEAR 2019’
Kennedy’s this year. We certainly haven’t been idle - we have now launched two new digital products in the last two months. This week we launched a brand-new Kennedy’s Confection App (Page 6) where all the issues for the last two years as well as videos, opinions, reviews and a whole lot more are available for you on your phones - we are now just a click away!
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We also launched a brand-new technical web site kennedysdigital. com which we believe is streets ahead of the standard news site as you can search for technology and solutions in manufacturing for the entire confectionery industry. Check out the latest updates from Leon Kennedy in Machinery News. (Page 8)
Dates are now being set for the next London Chocolate Forum which turns 10 years old in October 2020 (oh well, another party then!). With all this innovation, who would have thought we were 130 years old? Well ok, I’m 55 and feel a little old, but we have a hugely clever young gang here now on board at Kennedys, so we are younger and pushing harder than ever. Finally, being here in the business would not be possible without you, our readers and our amazingly loyal customers which have been with us year after year and that is what it’s all about, so thank you.
If you need me for anything – if you’ve got a good story or want to chat about anything, I seem to be quite good at that too, so go for it and drop me and our editors a line on
editor@kennedys.co.uk and tell us your story for our new App. Especially for Interpack which is another huge bumper issue coming up in April! So that was a lot to say for an intro and editorially I believe this is a very strong issue again. Most of the things we write, I guarantee you won’t read anywhere else! So long for now, see you in Cologne,
Lagos, Dusseldorf, Paris or online. Here’s to a year of getting off the couch, getting uncomfortable for a while but ending up living the dream!
Yours again with passion
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June 2019
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Trade News 32
German confectionery trade in focus
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Angus
Angus Kennedy, Editor
editor@kennedys.co.uk
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