SHAPIRO: The world's biggest candy maker, Mars, has announced a plan to buy chocolate that's grown more sustainably. That means making sure the cocoa that goes into Snickers bars, M&M's and other ...

After the closure of Hudson’s Bay Company stores across Canada, the annual holiday window displays in downtown Toronto nearly ...

Mars’ cocoa harvest in Ghana includes suppliers making extensive use of child labor, according to CBS News. The outlet reported it found instances of child labor at each of the remote farms supplying ...

Candy maker Mars said Wednesday it has partnered with biotech company Pairwise to speed up the development of more resilient cocoa using CRISPR-based gene editing technology. CRISPR technology is a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Mars Wrigley Confectionery launched a new sustainability strategy on Wednesday with the aim of combating deforestation, child labour and poverty in what it called the "broken" cocoa ...

American chocolate giant Mars did more than $45 billion in sales last year due, in large part, to chocolates like Mars Bars, M&Ms and Snickers. CBS News traveled to West Africa and found children as ...

Mars Inc. said yesterday it is holding "serious discussions with large pharmaceutical companies" about the development of a line of cocoa-based prescription drugs that could help treat diabetes, some ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mars Snackfood U.S. said on Monday it will continue to use 100 percent cocoa butter for all its U.S. chocolate products. Mars cited an industry petition to revise current standards ...

Chocolates are gifts that keep giving—especially for the families at the helm of Mars and Ferrero Rocher chocolate empires, who are juggernauts in their own right. Cocoa prices have skyrocketed ...

CHICAGO - The maker of M&M's and Milky Way bars says it would be a mistake to mess with its chocolate. Mars Inc. said Monday it will continue to use 100 percent cocoa butter in its U.S. chocolate ...

McLean candy giant Mars said yesterday that all its chocolate products will be made from sustainable sources by 2020, and it will begin with a popular candy bar sold in Britain. That means it will buy ...