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Sweet Rexie?s not only sells gift baskets and hosts children?s parties, but it also offers M & M?s in two dozen shades.

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');document.write('Pop-Tarts Brand Plants Its Times Square Flag
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Pop-Tarts is joining brands like M&M?s and Hershey in Times Square, where the focus is often less about sales than marketing and visibility.

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');document.write('Toffee, Pretzels and Beer Rolled Up in One
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Nicole Greene, a Chicago-based confectioner, makes a salty-sweet treat: beer and pretzel toffee.

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');document.write('Mars Campaign Promotes New Pretzel M&Ms
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Mars, the maker of M&Ms, is using social media as well as traditional outlets to promote its new pretzel variety of M&Ms.

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');document.write('Gum Ads That Seek Longer-Lasting Chewers
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The heaviest gum users are 12 to 17 and choose products based on the ?sensory experience? rather than any health benefit, marketers say.

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');document.write('Flavored Tobacco Pellets Are Denounced as a Lure to Young Users
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?Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, and to make it look like a piece of candy is recklessly playing with the health of children,? said the lead researcher of a study criticizing Orbs, a novel product from R. J. Reynolds Tobacco.

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');document.write('Chocolate-Covered Wine Grapes Offer a Sip in Every Bite
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The chocolate-covered dried wine grapes recently introduced at the confectioner Bissinger?s are lushly delicious.

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');document.write('Corrections
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Correction of Feb 17 article about brittle sold by Angelica Kitchen

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');document.write('FOOD; Recipe Redux: Chocolate Caramels, 1881
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Husband and wife chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski create recipe for black-sugar-glazed dates inspired by 1881 recipe for chocolate caramels made with molasses and vanilla; recipes; photos

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');document.write('Charleston Chews and Sugar Babies: Fistfuls of Nostalgia
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Retro-themed candy shops have been opening around the state, defying the difficult economy.

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');document.write('Bonbons With Truffles, Roses or Fireworks
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The sleek Park Avenue shop Borne Confections is now importing chocolates by the Spanish chef Oriol Balaguer.

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');document.write('FOOD STUFF; A Basketful of Sweetness, Wrapped in Thoughts
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Good Karmal\'s buttery caramels are flavored with vanilla, chocolate and sea salt; photo

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');document.write('Why Bankers Tend to Hoard
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Banks, facing an interest rate conundrum, are wary of depleting their cash reserves.

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');document.write('REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS; Patience Pays Off In Kraft\'s Pursuit
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Reuters Breakingviews column; four months of delays in coming to agreeable buyout offer from Kraft Foods for Cadbury leads to more favorable market conditions that will enable company to raise more money for final deal; General Electric\'s participation in Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, overseen by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, allows it to support it\'s media unit NBC\'s expensive contracts, including covering $40 million Conan O\'Brien and his production staff are expected to receive fo...

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');document.write('Kraft to Acquire Cadbury in Deal Worth $19 Billion
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After months of fiercely resisting any deal, Cadbury agreed on Tuesday to an improved takeover offer from Kraft Foods, worth about $19 billion.

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