article_snippet: One firm was given almost £500,000 to help improve One firm chocolate while others were handed large sums to make biscuits or sell ice cream.
article_snippet: £86,472 from public funds to help companies make confectionery wafer biscuits.
article_snippet: £31,000 government grant to help a farmer convert a barn into an ice cream shop.
article_snippet: £637,812 handout to help a company improve a company chocolate blending equipment.
article_snippet: £24,750 to develop 3-D chocolate printing for personalised gifts.
article_snippet: Another grant of £487,268 was given to Nestec, part of Nestle, to research ‘chocolate cooling technology’.
article_snippet: the Government’s Technology Strategy Board also put £356,076 into a joint project with PepsiCo to research dehydrated snacks.
article_snippet: £12,500 towards biscuit production and £11,400 to help convert a barn into a chocolate-making unit.
article_snippet: The year before, the quango handed over £143,000 to convert a farm building for ice cream production.
article_snippet: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council put £ into a project designed to improve the ‘sensory properties’ of confectionary wafers.
article_snippet: Some £180,000 went on two other projects involving wafers.
highlights_snippet: Nestle was given almost £500,000 to help improve Nestle chocolate making .
  
highlights_snippet: PepsiCo was handed a further £350,000 for on research dehydrated snacks .
  