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Young package forms grow beyond specialty niches

Two relatively new packaging forms--stand-up flexible pouches and non-round composite canisters--are expanding their application horizons and finding a measure of consumer acceptance at retail.

 

Just in time to catch the American "candy rush" formerly known as Valentine's Day (now increasingly referred to as "V-Day," something that Hallmark Cards, I think, has foisted upon us), Hershey Chocolate USA, a division of Hershey Foods Corp., Hershey, PA, is introducing a line of pouched chocolate balls called Bites(TM). The confections consist of Hershey's® milk chocolate with almonds Bites, Peter Paul Almond Joy® Bites, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme (chocolate cookie bits in white chocolate) Bites and Reese's® milk chocolate peanut butter Bites.

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