America's sugar shortfall leaves candy-makers scrounging

Bonbons and candy canes may dominate the American holiday aesthetic, but confectionery companies in the United States are feeling anything but jolly as they head into one of the sugar market’s tightest years in recent memory. Prolonged droughts in major cane-producers Mexico and Louisiana have helped push US sugar futures…

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