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New Stand-Up Bags
Ames International
(253) 946-4779
Whimsical designs on bright yellow stand-up bags make
the new 14-item line of nuts, candy and snacks from Ames International sure
to stand out from the crowd. The bags range in size from 5.5 ounces to 9
ounces, depending on the product; suggested retail price is $3.99. The
assortment includes items such as macadamia nuts covered in milk chocolate,
peanut butter-filled pretzels, soy nuts covered in dark chocolate, espresso
beans covered in dark chocolate, a variety of chocolate-covered fruit
items, and more.
Edible Candy Ink and Paper
Sherwood Brands
(301) 309-6161
Amazing Candicraft Pens with fruit-flavored
“ink” and edible paper add a whole new twist to “playing
with your food.” This tasty new item from Sherwood Brands is packaged
in a variety of formats. There is a three-pack of pens with paper; a single
pen with paper; and a Combo Display that contains individual pens and
individual paper packets.
Psychedelic Sours
Sconza Candy Co.
(510) 568-8137
Flared jeans and platform shoes are back in vogue, so
it’s only logical perhaps that Sconza is introducing Psychedelic
Sours — jawbreakers with a 70s spin. Each over-sized jawbreaker is
colored neon green and splattered with bright colors and features sour
fruit flavors that are tart, but not painfully intense. Each jawbreaker
layer is a different color and a different flavor. Psychedelic Sours are
available in a 12-count display box and 110-count display baskets. The
suggested retail price is $1.49 per jawbreaker.
Sunkist Gummies
Chews, Hard Candies
Simply Lite Foods
(631) 543-9600
Simply Lite Foods is hoping consumers will “take
a fruit trip” with its new line of Sunkist gummies, chews and hard
candies — available in regular fruit and sour fruit varieties.
Packages of gummies and chews are positioned for easy
portion control; they come five 1-ounce packs per 5-ounce bag. Each pack of
gummies contains 80 to 90 calories; the chews are 100 calories per pack.
Fruit varieties for both gummies and chews include cherry, orange, lemon
and strawberry. Sour fruit flavors for both are watermelon, cherry, orange
and apple.
The new lineup also includes Sunkist Hard Candy
— in fruit and sour fruit flavors. Each 5-ounce bag contains
approximately 35 pieces at 10 calories per piece. For all of the candy
varieties, a serving supplies 100 percent of the Recommended Daily Value of
vitamin C.
Fear Factor Candy
Stylus Candy
(586) 755-3000
Individually wrapped gummy eyeballs sold under the
Fear Factor banner come in a 1.35-ounce peg bag and have a suggested retail
price of 99 cents to $1.19. The candy carries the tag line, “Tastes
great, looks sick.”
Real Fruit Gummies
Dare Foods
(800) 265-2756
Real Fruit Gummies from Dare Foods come in three
fruity flavor varieties — Orchard Fruits, Fruit Medley and Tropical
Fruits. A leading Canadian confectionery company, Dare Foods hopes to carve
out a niche in the U.S. marketplace with its gummy offerings. The Real
Fruit Gummies are available in 6.4-ounce peg bags and 55-gram
single-serving packs.
New Peg Bag Line
Gimbal’s Fine Candies
(800) 344-6225
Gimbal’s is introducing a peg bag line all
decked out with a crisp new look in blue and white. The lineup includes:
Gourmet Jelly Beans (34 flavors); Lavaballs chewy cinnamon candy; Scottie
Dogs Licorice; Raspberries and Blackberries made with real fruit preserves.
The suggested retail price for the 7-ounce bags is $1.99.
New Gum Flavor
Mueller Sports Medicine
(608) 643-8530
Orange and fruit punch flavors are combined in a
single piece in the new “Double” variety of saliva-stimulating
Quench Gum. The gum comes in a 10-pack.
Dippity Pops
LN International
(866) 567-2537
New Dippity Pops are designed to appeal to candy
lovers from “eight to 80,” according to the company. This
novelty item features either a strawberry pop combined with a milk
chocolate-flavored dip (made from real Belgian chocolate) or an
apple-flavored pop with a caramel dip. The pops are shaped to resemble a
strawberry or an apple, respectively. Each Dippity Pop has a suggested
retail price of $1.99.
ICC Dreams Up a Sweet (and Sour) chewy Concept
When Innovative Candy Concepts’ Armand Hammer
decided to develop a new chewy candy offering, he started by taking a close
look at the gummy assortment already available in stores.
“We would see this huge wall of chewy
products,” says Hammer, company president and CEO. What he
didn’t see was much in the way of premium gummy products. “We
felt that a category this big deserved a different taste experience —
something more intense, but more natural,” he explains.
The new ICC confectionery offering — Dream Chews
gummy candies — are made without sugar (sweetened with honey instead)
and are fortified with vitamins C, A and D. Dream Chews deliver a
distinctively satisfying taste sensation, which starts out sour, but turns
sweet. The new gummies come in colorful, side-resealing packages. A
1.75-ounce snack pack has a suggested retail price of from 99 cents to
$1.29, and a 4-ounce peg bag will retail for from $1.89 to $1.99
Unlike ICC’s Too Tarts Smart Choice kids’
candy line, Dream Chews have an all-family positioning. At the NCA &
ECRM EPPS Candy Marketplace in Florida earlier this fall, candy buyers
responded enthusiastically to the new entry, which is shipping in
mid-November, Hammer reports.
Innovative Candy Concepts, (800) 621-1954
He's Got Game — And Gum!
Martoon LLC, an entrepreneurial marketer of mints and
gums, including innovatively packaged M-I mints, is at it again. The
company has introduced two highly targeted, functional chewing gums —
Gameface Sports Performance Gum and Ace It Test Performance Gum.
Gameface is fortified with caffeine, B vitamins and
taurine to pack a peak performance punch. Ace It is designed to help test
takers do precisely what the gum's name proclaims. It is fortified with
caffeine, ginkgo biloba and ginseng — ingredients associated with
improved alertness, mental cognition and reaction speed. Both of the new
sugar-sweetened tablet gums are packaged with 10 jumbo-sized pieces per
sleeved blister pack.
Marty Carmichael, president of Martoon LLC, says that
the rollout of both brands will be supported with focused national
television advertising.
Martoon LLC, (703) 875-0900