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Just a few things to ponder over:

• Chocolate confectionery in the US continues to be characterised by two companies. In 2014, Hershey and Mars accounted for a combined 65% share of overall value sales. No other company in the category maintains a share of higher than 5%.
• Over the 2014-2019 forecast period, chocolate confectionery is expected to register value growth of 15% at constant 2014 prices, to reach sales of US$20.4 billion.

http://www.euromonitor.com/chocolate-confectionery-in-the-us/report

• The global confectionery market was worth nearly US$200 billion dollars in 2014, and grew by an annual rate of 2% in real terms over the previous five years.

http://www.euromonitor.com/global-c...ategories-countries-and-trends-to-2019/report