Haribo, the world’s leading manufacturer of licorice and gummy sweets, has announced it is investing €300 million ($326 million ) in a new production plant in Neuss, in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region. The company said it was planning to acquire 14 hectares of land for the new plant at the Neuss-Holzheim industrial park. This new facility will function alongside the existing Julicher Landstrasse site until 2030, when the latter will …