1 Kabul, Afghanistan: A confectioner works in a factory.

2 Sift confectioner sugar on top of the cake.

3 The venerable British confectioner rejected out of hand the American food giant’s offer, saying it “fundamentally undervalues” the company, which could continue to thrive on its own.

4 Mars, which became the world's largest confectioner through its acquisition of Wrigley, also may want to expand further by reaching into emerging markets.

5 Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers.

6 Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops, retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes.

7 HSY.N), a Mars competitor, gained 4.6 percent to $36.35 on speculation that the Wrigley/Mars deal will compel a tie-up between the U.S. confectioner and Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Plc CBRY.L.

8 At a price of $19.6 billion, and now the Cadbury board's blessing, Kraft now becomes the largest confectioner in the world.

9 Still, the offer isn't flying with Cadbury, which said the bid 'fundamentally undervalues' the U.K. confectioner.

10 Cadbury's unions opposed the move, worried about job cuts, but the firm's board has reasoned that the price is right to bring together the two companies to create the world’s biggest confectioner.

11 A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that the two companies have weighed breaking the UK confectioner up into separate businesses as part of a friendly, all-cash bid.

12 What do you get when you combine a reality-TV star, a pin designer, hula-hooping gurus, pirate fanatics, and a mother-and-daughter confectioner team?

13 A rival bid of at least 800 to 820 pence, or $17.9 billion, could emerge this week from U.S.-based confectioner Hershey, The Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday.

14 As times became hard, he moved to the United States andbecame a confectioner in New York.