Professional Candy Buyer is packed with everyday and seasonal products, buyer/retailer/manufacturer profiles, category updates, merchandising strategies and tremendous eye candy.
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Editor's NOTE Executive Vice President/ Group Publisher Charles Forman It's the Holiday Season... hocolates shaped like Santa Claus and snowmen, candies colored in holiday shades, and long, long lines at every store in town...it's the holiday season and it's a great time of year for the candy business. For generations, parents have been slipping candies into holiday stockings, revelers celebrating multiple holidays have been filling jars with candy canes and other traditional sweets and holiday shoppers have been standing in retail lines for longer than they would like, staring at racks of candy and snacks for the grabbing. And that's where this issue of Professional Candy Buyer begins. In this edition, we bring you Part 2 of our 2-part series on Impulse Buying with real world examples of how some retailers are making the most of key selling areas like the checkout line; we take a look at an M&M's pop-up store concept that Mars recently sampled at its home base in New Jersey; and we provide a little preview of what will be found at the Winter Fancy Food Show, coming up in January in San Francisco. But that's not all. We also provide product stories that look into the trend for exotic, unusual ingredients in the chocolate category; the health craze that's boosting business for snacks featuring nuts, seeds and popcorn; and the sour sensation sweeping the non-chocolate chewy sector. We hope the products and trends on these pages help to make your winter season sweet. And, whatever holiday you celebrate, we hope that you and your family have a happy and healthy one. Happy Holidays! Advertising Sales Paula Kapacinskas 847-720-5619 - office pk@m2media360.com Editor Jennifer Quail jquail@m2media360.com Art Director Simonette dela Calzada Production Manager Madeline Minor madminor@m2media360.com Contributing Writers/Editors Liza Casabona, Kathleen Furore, Jessica Goldbogen Harlan Editorial Advisory Board Kristin Anderson VP of Merchandising, Dylan's Candy Bar Print Cates Director of Franchise Operations, Powell's Sweet Shoppe Tim Quinn VP Trade Development, MARS Chocolate North America Terese McDonald Founder & Owner, Candyality President/CEO Marion Minor Vice President, Finance and Operations Gerald Winkel Vice President, Circulation and Audience Development Joanne Juda-Prainito (847) 720-5611 jjuda@m2media360.com Production and Operations Director Mary Jo Tomei Circulation Manager Debra Welter (847) 720-5614 dwelter@m2media360.com List Rental and Reprints Cheryl Naughton (678) 292-6054 cnaughton@m2media360.com Professional Candy Buyer is published by the Specialty Retailing Group, a division of M2MEDIA360 Editorial and Executive Offices 1030 W. Higgins Road, Suite 230 Park Ridge, IL 60068 | Fax: (847) 720-5601 Jennifer Quail, Editor Twitter/procandybuyer Facebook/Professional Candy Buyer 4 | NOV + DEC 2012 | PROFESSIONAL C ANDY BUYER | CANDYBUYER.COM Phone: (847) 720-5600 P ROFESSIONAL C ANDY B UYER , (ISSN-1090-1914), a bi-monthly magazine, is published by M2MEDIA360, a Bev-Al Communications Inc. company, 1030 W. Higgins Road, Suite 230, Park Ridge, IL 60068. Subscription rates: $50 per year in the U.S., $60 Canada, all other countries $100. Current issue single copies (prepaid only) $10 in the U.S.; elsewhere $20. Add $3.50 per order for shipping and handling. © 2012 PROFESSIONAL CANDY BUYER. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information retrieval system, without written permission from the Publisher. Periodicals Postage Paid at Park Ridge, IL, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to P.O. Box 2121, Skokie, IL 60076-7821.