Category: Halloween

• Top Tips for Selling & Merchandising Gumballs

  

  Blowing up your gumball sales is easier than you think

  Heather Mayer

  March 6, 2024

  Christmas, Confection, Easter, Halloween, Merchandising, Valentine’s Day

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• Fun Candy (Monster) Mash-Ups

  

  Eerie-sistable candy pairings

  Heather Mayer

  October 6, 2022

  Chocolate, Confection, Event Planning, Halloween, Merchandising

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• Halloween 2022: Trending Tricks for Your Treats

  

  How to mix seasonal and everyday for a skele-fun mix

  Heather Mayer

  August 18, 2022

  Confection, Halloween, Merchandising

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• Limited Time = Big Sales: The Power of Seasonal & Food Holidays

  

  Create that limited time feeling year-round

  Heather Mayer

  August 12, 2022

  Chocolate, Christmas, Confection, Halloween, Merchandising, Snacks, Specialty Food

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• 2021 On Track for A Boo-tiful Halloween Candy Season

  

  Early predictions say Halloween 2021 will be all treats.

  Heather Mayer

  August 26, 2021

  Chocolate, Confection, Halloween, Merchandising

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• 4 Fabulous Fall Colors We Can’t Leaf Alone

  

  Autumn’s best colors and flavors come alive in candy. There is so much more to love about fall beyond Halloween.

  Heather Mayer

  October 7, 2019

  Chocolate, Confection, Event Planning, Halloween

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• Day of the Dead – Sweets & Snacks to get in the Spirit

  

  Celebrating Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead

  Heather Mayer

  September 23, 2019

  Chocolate, Confection, Halloween

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• Falling for Limited Edition Flavors

  

  Limited Time flavors are a driving force behind seasonal sales. Get in on the trends to keep customers coming back for more.

  Heather Mayer

  September 16, 2019

  Chocolate, Confection, Halloween, Merchandising, Snacks, Specialty Food, Trends

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• Fang-tastic ways to Keep Halloween Sweet and Safe

  

  Top Allergen-free Treats to Take some of the Scare out of Halloween Halloween is one of the candy industry’s busiest holidays with consumers spending approximately 2.6 billion on candy in 2018, according to the trade publication Candy Industry. While a time of revelry and fun, it can be challenging for the 5.6 million children under…

  Heather Mayer

  September 9, 2019

  Chocolate, Confection, Halloween, Merchandising

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• The Award for the Top-Selling Candy Holiday Goes To . . .

  

  Americans spend more than $21.5 billion on candy every year! Holiday candy sales account for 17% of total candy sales – that’s a whopping $3.5 billion. There are 4 distinct candy “seasons” every year: Valentine’s Day Easter Halloween Christmas/Chanukah Out of these 4 seasons, would it surprise you to know that Easter candy outsells the…

  Nassau Candy

  March 27, 2018

  Chocolate, Christmas, Confection, Easter, Halloween, Merchandising, Valentine’s Day

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