Nello Ferrara, who took over the American candy-making family business founded by his father, died on 3 February aged 93.
Ferrara was chairman of Chicago-based Ferrara Pan Candy Company, the business he first joined in the 1950s. This was following a degree in law and a four-year stint in the US army – he was a member of the Counterintelligence Corps from 1942 until 1946.