Winter ECRM 2013 Preview: It’s already beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Take a sneak peek at the newest products slated to debut at the Candy Planning: Christmas and Halloween ECRM event, Feb. 18-21.
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Warheads Super Sour Candy Canes, Christmas-inspired Dum Dum flavors and an Ovation Mint Filled Break-A-Part, are just some of the items slated to be showcased at this year’s Candy Planning: Christmas and Halloween ECRM event, Feb. 18-21 at Marriott San Antonio Rivercenter in San Antonio. (Click here to start a slide show of new items slated to be on display at the event!)
Suppliers will have the opportunity to meet with pre-qualified buyers to discuss new product and programs for the 2013 Christmas and Halloween holiday seasons. The private meetings are pre-scheduled based on category focus and guarantee face time with the decision makers.
As preparation for this event is well underway, suppliers are not just gearing up for meetings, they’re also preparing for the annual Kids Candy Choice Awards hosted by ECRM and the Candy Industry Magazine.
Participating suppliers will compete to take home the title for best new chocolate, best new non-chocolate or best novelty candy. But with stiff competition and 75 children from The Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio judging the contest, these awards aren’t won easily.
The winners will be announced in the evening on Feb. 19, and in addition to a plaque and bragging rights, the winners will receive a full page ad in the April issue of Candy Industry magazine, a banner ad in the publication’s electronic newsletter, Confectionery Fix; and a one-month banner ad on Candy Industry's website.
Participants must donate individually wrapped products that are separated into quantities of 100. Registration forms and detailed participation instructions can be found on the ECRM website; www.ecrm.marketgate.com.
Be sure to enter your products and then check out who wins in Candy Industry’s April issue!
In addition to the Kids Candy Choice Awards, this year’s event has a winter wonderland/Christmas theme. To get in the spirit, vendors are encouraged to decorate their meeting space with the appropriate themed décor while all attendees and ECRM staff will sport their favorite Christmas attire. Evening activities include an appearance from Santa Claus and snow cones will be readily available throughout the event.
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak at some of the products that will be on display. You'll find a full list of products below, or you can click here to start a slide show of the items!
Brown & Haley — Holiday Roca Nutcracker Tin
CandyRific – Halloween Screamer
Divine Chocolate – Divine Chocolate Fair Trade Baking Range
Gamesformotion – Transformers Monopoly Chocolate Game
Impact Confections – Warheads Super Sour Candy Canes
Mars Chocolate North America – SNICKERS Peanut Butter Pumpkin Singles
My Favorite Candy Co. – Polar Pack Bobbles
Original Gourmet – Lollipop Bingo
Spangler Candy Co. – Dum Dums Christmas Laydown Bag
SweetWorks – Ovation Mint Filled Break-A-Part
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. – Starburst Jellybeans Fave Reds $1 Filled Cane
You'll find a full list of products below, or you can click here to start a slide show of the items!
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Holiday Roca Nutcracker Tin
Brown & Haley, Fife, Wash.
www.brown-haley.com
(253) 620-3000
The classic nutcracker, a Christmas tradition for hundreds of years, inspired this special edition Roca Holiday Assortment, which includes classic Almond Roca Buttercrunch and Dark Roca Buttercrunch. The candies come in a Nutcracker-shaped tin.
S.R.P.: $9.99
Next: Halloween Candies from Candyrific
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Candyrific
CandyRific, Louisville, Ky.
www.candyrific.com
(502) 893-3626 (option 1)
CandyRific’s new Halloween items are sure to make the holiday extra special and extra scary. They include Monsters University flashlights,Mickey and Friends Halloween flashlights, Halloween keychain flashlights topped with pumpkins and mummies, and Halloween Screamers with skulls and mummies.
SRP: (Halloween Screamer and Halloween Keychain Flashlight) $2.99; (Monsters University and Mickey & Friends Flashlights) $3.99
Next: Divine Chocolate Fair Trade Baking Range from Divine Chocolate
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Divine Chocolate Fair Trade Baking Range
Divine Chocolate, Washington, D.C.
divinechocolateusa.com
(202) 332-8913
This new chocolate collection is perfect for making cookies this holiday season. The line includes three new items: a 70% Bittersweet Baking Bar, a 38% Milk Chocolate Baking Bar and
Cocoa Powder. All three are Fairtrade-certified and vegetarian.
S.R.P.: (5.3oz bars, 4.4oz tin)$4.39 for all products
Next: Transformers Monopoly from Gamesformotion
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Transformers Monopoly Chocolate Game
Gamesformotion, Deventer, The Netherlands
www.gamesformotion.com
(920) 400-1266
Transformers, Monopoly and chocolate? Yep. The newest candy game from Gramesformotion includes 32 Individually wrapped imported chocolates, and a gameboard laid out like Monopoly and featuring Transformers references for the various properties.This treat is sure to be “more than meets the eye!”
S.R.P.: $9.99
Next: Warhead Super Sour Candy Canes from Impact Confections
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Warheads Super Sour Candy Canes
Impact Confections, Littleton, Colo.
www.impactconfections.com
(303) 626-2222
Warheads Super Sour Candy Canes take the mouth puckering sour flavor of its everyday product and puts it in a candy cane form! Bright, colorful canes come in wild berry flavor. Impact Confections also will highlight Melster Candies Marshmallow Shapes in Santa, Snowmen, and Cherry Reindeers.
S.R.P.: (12 candy canes) $2.49
Next: SNICKERS Peanut Butter Pumpkin Singles by Mars Chocolate
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SNICKERS Peanut Butter Pumpkin Singles
Mars Chocolate North America, Hackettstown, N.J.
www.mars.com
(800) 627-7852
The new SNICKERS Peanut Butter Pumpkin Singles combine all the delicious goodness of SNICKERS — roasted peanuts, nougat, caramel and milk chocolate — with rich, creamy peanut butter in a festive pumpkin shape. The candy makes a great on-the-go treat, party snack or special surprise for trick-or-treaters.
S.R.P.: (1.1-oz single)$0.80
Next: Polar Pack Bobbles from My Favorite Candy Co.
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Polar Pack Bobbles
My Favorite Candy Co., Los Angeles
www.treatstreet.com
(877) 925-2225
Treat Street Polar Pack bobbles are fun new collectible bobble head characters on top of reusable containers filled with yummy fruit flavored candy! Just give them a touch and their big heads start to nod and wobble.
S.R.P.: $3.99
Next: Lollipop Bingo from Original Gourmet
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Lollipop Bingo
Original Gourmet, Salem, N.H.
www.ogfcstore.com
(603) 894-1200
In this game, five lollipops in a row or across wins! Original Gourmet will be selling a Lollipop Bingo gift box for the holiday season, and it comes complete with everything you need for a great game of Bingo, including lollipops, and a spin dial.
S.R.P.: $5
Next: Dum Dum Christmas Laydown Bag from Spangler Candy Co.
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Dum Dums Christmas Laydown Bag
Spangler Candy Co., Bryan, Ohio
www.spanglercandy.com
(419) 636-4221
These Christmas Dum Dums come in a variety of holiday flavors including: Merry Cherry, Sugar Plum, Hot Chocolate, Sugar Cookie, Apple Cider, Gingerbread, Green Apple Grinch, Polar Punch and Mystery. Spangler Candy also will feature a Peppermint Marshmallow Circus Peanut as well as SweetNature Assorted Fruit Candy Canes, and SweetNature Peppermint Candy Cane at the show.
S.R.P.: (10.4-oz bag of Christmas Dum Dums) $2.79
Next: Ovation Mint Filled Break-a-Part from SweetWorks
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Ovation Mint Filled Break-A-Part
SweetWorks, Buffalo, N.Y.
www.sweetworks.net
(716) 204-0733
SweetWorks is introducing a new flavor to the Ovation Break-A-Part family: Mint Filled! It’s an all-natural dark chocolate sphere that breaks into 20 individual slices and each segment is filled with a cool mint center.
S.R.P.: (6.17-oz. sphere) $3.99
Next: Starburst Jellybeans Fave Reds $1 Filled Cane from Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
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Starburst Jellybeans Fave Reds $1 Filled Cane
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Chicago
www.wrigley.com
(800) Wrigley
This Christmas treat makes a great stocking stuffer and is filled with Starburst jelly beans in the brand’s most delicious red flavors: Watermelon, Cherry and Strawberry. Wrigley also will be showcasing its Lifesavers Candy Cane, Peppermint Roll and Orbit Micro Pack Blister Card at the event.
S.R.P.: (1.85-oz of Starbursts jellybeans) $1
