Cloetta Group has announced that it has acquired the Irish confectionery company Aran Candies. Aran Candies is mostwidely known as the manufacturer of The Jelly Bean Factory brand, which produce 36 varieties of Jelly beans. Cloetta has acquired 75% of the share of the Irish company for SEK140m ($21 million) with the remaining 25% to be acquired by 2016. “Jelly Beans are known as a product to consumers world-wide, and …