nostalgic | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

Items Tagged with 'nostalgic'

ARTICLES

Sugar Plum Chocolates introduces nostalgic chocolate bars

Chocolate bar line features flavors inspired by breakfast, baked goods.

May 19, 2021

All of Sugar Plum’s treats are hand crafted at its bakery and kitchen in Kingston, Pennsylvania, by mother-and-son team Fran and Neil Edley.

How food brands can use nostalgia to their advantage

More than 70 percent of U.S. consumers enjoy things from their childhoods.

Alyse Thompson

March 4, 2020

Playing on consumers’ memories and emotional connections to nostalgic flavors and products can spell success for food manufacturers, according to a new report from FONA International.

Canada-based Sticky’s Candy stores pull in customers with nostalgia, selection

Canadian confectionery retailer has 25 stores and counting in the Vancouver area.

Crystal Lindell

January 22, 2016

“We have all the competitors that everybody else does in the States,” say founder Robin Burnette. “We have all the grocery stores, Walmart. They’re selling chocolate bars. [But] in Canada they sell all Canadian chocolate bars. A majority of Canadians go south in the winter time, so we carry a lot of U.S. chocolate bars. We’ve got that chocolate bar that you like from the States that you found, and we also bring in the British chocolate and a lot of Dutch licorice.”

Retail Confectioner Cover Story

Cute, and they’ve got great ‘Candyalities’!

Crystal Lindell

June 1, 2012

Ashley Reinsmith, Creative & Coordinator Extraordinaire, and Terese McDonald, founder, have taken the Chicago-based Candyality stores to the next level of confectionery retail.

Nello Ferrara dies at 93

March 1, 2012

Peter Blommer, president and ceo of Blommer Chocolate, first met Nello Ferrara in 1991 at a Western Candy Conference in Arizona. “When Nello took the stage at the gala dinner and broke into song, I knew this was a special man and a wonderful industry,” Blommer recalls in an online guestbook on the Chicago Tribune’s website.

In with the OLD & the NEW

February 14, 2012

The Vermont Country store is founded on old-fashioned values, but has progressed by embracing the latest technology.

This webinar will examine variables factoring into nutritionally improved candy sales, including ingredients, label claims, and alternative sugars. Better-for-you options remain top of mind for consumers who are searching for indulgences, but in a healthier format.