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| History of Candy Bars
August 9, 2008 20:44:16Chocolate, as a drink, was a favorite of Montezuma, Emperor of the Aztecs. Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, brought the drink back to Spain in 1529. It remained a favorite of the Spanish royalty for many years before becoming consumed widely throughout Europe. Three centuries later in England chocolate was first used as a non-liquid confection. - [Read more] |
| Bonomo's Turkish Taffy
August 9, 2008 20:44:16The candy, which first appeared as a nickel bar after World War II, became a favorite with the economy-minded. Unlike some of its competitors, which melted in your mouth, Turkish Taffy eroded slowly, and it was so chewy that a single bar could last through most of a double feature at the movies. - [Read more] |
| Brachs Candy Retro Advertisements
August 9, 2008 20:44:16Brachs Confections, one of Americas favorite candy companies, has been manufacturing candy since 1904 and was a pioneer in the field of bulk and seasonal candy.
Below are a few vintage Brachs Candy advertisements guaranteed to please any retro or nostalgic candy lover and to bring back sweet memories - [Read more] |
| What's our fascination with gross candy?
August 9, 2008 20:44:15Its the end of the road for road-kill candy.
Kraft foods announced last week that it would halt production of Trolli Road Kill Gummi candy -- gummy pieces shaped liked flattened squirrels, chickens and snakes -- because of protests from animal rights groups. - [Read more] |
| A Sweet Deal
August 9, 2008 20:44:15Jon Prince doesnt eat much candy, but he lives and breathes it. - [Read more] |
| The coolest candy you've (probably) never heard of
August 9, 2008 20:44:15You’d be hard pressed to find Steve Almond’s favorite sweets in grocery checkout lines, prime real estate for impulse buying candy lovers. Big national manufacturers pay thousands to secure space, leaving smaller, regional candy makers to rely on specialty stores and websites such as the internet’s largest candy store, www.candyfavorites.com. - [Read more] |
| NBC Today Show
August 9, 2008 20:44:15In November 2003, the NBC Today Show paid a visit to McKeesport Candy
Co., the internets LARGEST candy store, to include them in a segment about
candy that aired on Christmas Day. - [Read more] |
| McKeesport Candy Co. Sells Sweet Nostalgia
August 9, 2008 20:44:15Today is Halloween, and Thanksgiving is coming up. So the order wasnt that odd: 30 pounds of candy corn. But this was a desperate man. Though hed moved to Ireland, he couldnt survive autumn without his candy corn. - [Read more] |
| WQEDs "On Q"
August 9, 2008 20:44:15On February 11, 2004, McKeesport Candy was featured on WQED TV on the “On
Q” Television Program. - [Read more] |
| You've Got to Be Creative
August 9, 2008 20:44:15Creativity is the key to making money in the wholesale candy business. And the only area that allows any creativity is the candy department. If you play it right there, you end in both high profit and volume areas. Twenty percent markups minimally if the company is into bagging, which include a private label. Obviously this is the area that youd want for a mainstay. In contrast, the standard items-- candy bars, cigarettes, sundries - bring in some plus business. - [Read more] |
| Organized Units Increases Sales
August 9, 2008 20:44:15Selling candy in "organized unit deals" on a "protected profit" has been a major factor in the success of the McKeesport Candy Co., of McKeesport,PA. which has grown from a modest beginning into one of the largest and most successful candy wholesale firms in the state. - [Read more] |
| Old-line manufacturer weds old principles, new vehicle
August 9, 2008 20:44:14How do you keep a generations- old company on the leading edge?”
Fast Company magazine asked that question in its October issue – and answered it with a story about a candy company in McKeesport, Pa., a former mill town about 10 miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. - [Read more] |
| Tricks for Treats
August 9, 2008 20:44:13The McKeesport Candy Co.s tips for taking pixie sticks from bricks to clicks. - [Read more] |
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