Anyone who's walked the aisles of t...

Anyone who's walked the aisles of the ISM exhibit in Cologne or the All Candy Expo in Chicago can quickly attest to the confectionery industry's internationalism. notwithstanding despite candy's global reach, the spectacles for growth--when analyzed across all four corners--remain flat.

Chicago-based Euromonitor International's latest report onward world confectionery trends (Global Confectionery Market connected view 2003-2004 projects barely a 2% mixed annual growth rate (CAGR) in sales and dimensions for the next five-year period, with each averaging 17% and 19% respectively from 2003 by the and of 2008.

Such uninspired foresights for a ...