206 candy companies from the US, UK, and Canada — the brands they make and what happened to them.
One of Chicago's forgotten confectionery giants. Alfred Shotwell founded the company in 1903 after befriending Harry Eckstein of C…
Founded in 1876 by brothers Ferdinand and Gustav Bunte and their partner Charles Spoehr, Bunte Brothers became one of the most pro…
Frank Martoccio, an Italian-American businessman who ran a macaroni company in Minneapolis, accidentally entered the candy busines…
Founded in 1914 by George Schutter in Chicago, the Schutter Candy Company is best remembered as the originator of Bit-O-Honey in 1…
Julia Clark was born on a farm near Wayne, Illinois in 1896. Facing limited income in the mid-1920s, she began making fudge for a …
The Zeno Manufacturing Company was established in 1890, growing out of the Rubber Paint Company of Cleveland, Ohio. W.N. Brewer ha…
Wood Candy Co. was established in 1908 at 930 N. Michigan Avenue — one of Chicago's most prominent addresses — suggesting it opera…
George DeMet opened a candy store and soda fountain in Chicago in 1898. Around 1916–1922 he introduced what would become his signa…
Otto Schnering founded the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago in 1916, naming it after his mother's maiden name. He became known as …
The Williamson Candy Company was established in Chicago in 1917. In 1920 it introduced Oh Henry! — a bar of fudge, caramel, and pe…
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