Candy Information Service^TM is a confectionery product market monitor. This leading edge web-based view of developments in candy and related categories focuses on products: monitoring what is new and what has changed, not sales data.  Information accumulates on-line in an easy-to-navigate format. "New" and "Change" are monitored as follows:

1. New and related products from the following perspectives:
    - Entering the retail market - scanned images provided.
    - As seen at trade shows - photos or scans provided.
    - Photos of displays, store coupons or store ads of interest are also covered.

2. Retail product surveys. Retail product pick-ups in four markets monitor change in any aspect - product, package, graphics, ingredients, claims, etc. Product or label images are provided in Adobe Acrobat as the method of communication.

3. FSIs. In papers on Sundays, on-line on Monday or Tuesday. All confectionery FSIs are monitored weekly and accumulated in the web-site.

4. Remarkable searching capability permits the user to find all products or FSIs in the archive.

Candy Information Service^TM is prepared by people who understand the candy business and understand and appreciate what is important. As the former owner of Confectioner magazine, Jim Echeandia brings experience and expertise to the undertaking in his role as publisher.