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Candy Industry, Innovation and Simplification.

No matter the category, industry-wide, chocolate producers are changing packaging designs to address changing customer needs.  Stand up bags with re-sealable closures and tablets individually wrapped sections offer snack and store capability.  Better portion-control make these innovations appeal to buyers looking for fresher and healthier options.   Note the heightened focus on nutritional value and providing serving size information on product labels.  No wonder Snickers is sold in king, original, snack, bite and bit sizes! 

Disappointing unit sales have spurred innovation and simplification in the market.  While we can expect giants like Mars and Nestle to exploit the nostalgic value of bars consumers know and love.  But by nimbly responding to consumer demands, smaller chocolate makers can make a name for themselves too.

Chocolate Sale Hit $4.9 Billion

Well the news is out.

Here are the top selling Chocolate over the last year ending 1/25/2009.  All dollars in (M) millions.  These are the top ten candy bars.  You can see more detail and pictures on our candy bar web page.

M&Ms $106M
Hershey $95M
Reese $89M
Snickers $77M
Kit Kat $44M
Twix $34M
3 Musketeers $33M
Butterfinger $22M
Milky Way $19M
York Peppermint Patty $18m

Make it healthy, make it exciting and make it easy

The word out in industry is to “Make it healthy, make it exciting and make it easy”.  That is the mantra being called in order to keep the number one confectionary category at the top.  Chewing gum has been linked to weight loss, oral health maintenance, stress management and increased concentration.  The calorie conscious consumer certainly benefits from Sugar Free Gum.  The Wrigley Company has actually done scientific research indicating the benefits of chewing gum in the areas of weight management, oral health and stress and concentration.  Chewing gum can burn 11 calories in an hour and also provides and alternative to eating other foods.  Orbit gum caries the American Dental Association Seal of Approval because it is proven to fight cavities.  A study conducted by the Congress of Behavioral Medicine indicates that chewing gum may help reduce stress, improve alertness and relieve anxiety.

Cool Candy Articles

Candy Store Owner, Meet Joel

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Wow a Super Coooooooooool Esnips Widget About Candy !!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Candy Store Lens

Here is a real cool candy store lens to check out.  Just another friendly online gadget to enjoy.

CandyXpress recently created a really great Wiki called AboutUs Wiki. The Wiki gives all sorts of great information about CandyXpress

The AboutUs.org CandyXpress Wiki has great information about the company including products for sale, company history and even has directions to the candy store. Our candy store serves customers throughout the globe. Our primary focus is in the United States with a large customer base locally to us in New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), including New York City (NYC), Pennsylvania (PA) including customers in Philadelphia (Philly). Delivery to these areas via UPS is typically within one to two business days. Site registration information is also available.

 

 

The Wiki was a spot lighted article. There is even a video so you can meet me Joel the candy store owner. In addition just to make you feel good about CandyXpress there are some customer testimonials.

Well I Learned a Lesson re Candy Gift Ideas

Well I leaned a lesson for sure. After a bunch of work and I made a big mistake. Had this real great Kaboodle Blog going and was chatting with a partner and got this idea to post links on other sites to related info on my site. Well it worked rel well and all seemed fine. Until, I was banned from Kaboodle. I guess you are not allowed to do that. In fact after I carefully read the rules I realized I was not supposed to. I tried to apologize but now way no how. So I used to have this really cool Kaboodle picture thing going here but no more. So the lesson is to read and follow the rules. Probably OK to link internally within the application but not out from one site to your external sites. OK, this is my updated posting. Working on a new Wiki now with AboutUs. It is all about you guessed it me Joel Bernstein and TheCandyStore.  I also made one all about candy called candyxpress.

Food & Beverages, Gluten Free Candy - Amazines.com Article S

Gluten free candy is important for those that love sweets but cannot tolerate gluten in their diet. We also have a complete set of links to research candy products which you may be interested in to assure yourself they are gluten free.

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Business, So exactly what is a online candy store. - Amazine

Basically it is a structured set of bits and bytes tied to some web page development software and integrated with some shopping cart software. The bits and bytes represent key aspects of your store in a digital format. If you get good SE rankings it can make you some money also.

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