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FROM SWEET AND SCRUMPTIOUS, TO WACKY AND WEIRD: COOL CANDIES DOMINATE 2005 ALL CANDY EXPO

With close to 20,000 attendees and more than 1,000 new taste sensations, the 2005 ALL CANDY EXPO® proved once again that candy is cool at any age and for everyone. During the three-day show, nearly 500 exhibitors previewed the latest and greatest the candy industry has to offer, and what consumer can expect to see on their store shelves and in their Halloween bags this coming year.

Kids will soon savor new products like Bubble Gum Booster, while Star Wars fans snap up limited edition novelty items, and chocolate lovers will find a wonderland of indulgent new treats and trends from dark to milk varieties. With inspiration for the new offerings coming everywhere from summer blockbuster movies, to new, more intense flavors, consumers are sure to find a new favorite or a fresh take on a beloved candy classic. Take a nibble out of what’s to come.

Limited and Loving It: Limited Edition Candies

  • Junior Mints® Inside Outs – Junior Mints® have been turned inside out with a new super white coating on the outside and dark chocolate coloring on the inside. The candy still has that delightfully smooth and creamy taste now with a delicious, mouth watering chocolate center. (Tootsie Roll)
  • Limited Edition Ring Pop® – Limited edition lollipops on a ring in Root Beer, Shirley Temple, Caramel Apple, Cotton Candy, and Sweet Cinnamon Swirl flavors are sure to shine on anyone’s finger. (The Topps Co. Inc.)

Fitness Fanatics

  • Quench® Gum – Packed with mouthwatering double orange and fruit flavors, your salivary glands will be stimulated and dry mouth will be eliminated when you pop a piece into your mouth. (Mueller)
  • Jelly Belly® Sports Beans – This first-of-its-kind jelly bean is formulated to energize the body during exercise. Packed with carbs, vitamin C & E, and electrolytes to boost energy and prevent dehydration, these sports beans can be found in Lemon Lime and Orange flavors. (Jelly Belly Candy Company)
  • Blitz Energy Gum – The world’s first commercialized energy gym incorporating a compressed chewing gum process using Splenda® gives you an added burst of energy during the day. (Schuster Marketing)

Entertaining and Edible

  • PEZ® Star Wars Dispensers – Clones and other Star Wars favorites make their way back to the movie theater and onto a supermarket shelf near you! Cinderella, Belle and Jasmin PEZ® Disney Princesses will soon debut for your little princess. And NASCAR fans can rev their taste buds with PEZ® NASCAR Helmets & Pull and Go Cars featuring favorite drivers Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte, Kasey Kahne, Rusty Wallace and Richard Petty. Dream Works summer movie Madagascar is sure to be a hit and so will PEZ® Madagascar characters Alex, Marty and. Gloria. PEZ® Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, featuring Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello, are still a lean mean fighting machine and a tasty treat. (PEZ Candy Inc.)
  • Rocky Mountain Chocolate, Lucy’s Chocolate Factory™ – As part of I Love Lucy’s 50 th anniversary, Lucy’s back and now she has her own chocolates. She entertained you for years on the television screen, now she entertains your sweet spot with chocolate pieces and bars. (Lucy’s Chocolate Factory)
  • Winnie the Pooh Saf-T-Pops – Reading and Arithmetic are part of the equation when it comes to Winnie the Pooh Saf-T-Pops. Kids can learn their ABC’s and 123’s as they eat the Vitamin C fruity flavored lollipops. (Spangler)
  • Imagination Confections™ goes Disney with The Incredibles Fruity Chewsin your favorite superheroes flavors of Grape, Cherry, Strawberry, Apple, Lemon, and Orange. Soft and chewy strawberry twists make you feel Tigger-iffic when you take a bit out into a Tigger Strawberry Twists. And Mickey Mouse has not been forgotten, Mickey Gummi Swirls are a host of creamy blends of raspberry, strawberry, and orange in a small, soft, gummy candy. (Imagination Confections LLC)

Extreme Team: Gum and Mints

  • Dentyne Ice® Cool Frost and Fire® Cinnamon Spice will help gum goers explore their softer side with new soft chew Dentyne gum offering in Ice Cool Frost and Cinnamon Spice flavors. Not up for gum? Then try Dentyne Mints® in, Dentyne Ice® Peppermint and Dentyne Fire® Spicy Cinnamon. These mints are packed with extreme flavor and intense breath-freshening power into a mint experience. (Cadbury Adams USA)
  • Orbit Sweet Mint is a delightful mint flavored blend that offers a good clean feeling. The unique flavor combination of vanilla and crème de menthe offers consumers a new-to-world sugar free flavor experience. Spice up your life with Eclipse Cinnamon Mints that offer a hot and spicy cinnamon flavor to wipe out bad breath with a strong burst of intense breath-freshening spark. (Wm Wrigley Jr. Company)
  • Morris National Bubble Roller™ Sour – 6 feet of fun bubble gum in sour blue raspberry or sour green apple flavors. The sleek new tape measure package comes complete with a belt clip to bring your fun gum along anywhere you go. (Morris National, Inc.)
  • Warp® Energy Cinnamon Mints – This natural energy boosting alternative to coffee helps to give your day a power-packed punch and a breath-blasting mouth taste. (Big Sky Brands, Inc.)
  • Mentos® Sours & Sugar Free – The crunchy outer shell and chewy center candy combines sour blends of fruity flavors bringing mentos candies to a whole other extreme flavor level. (Perfetti Van Melle)
  • MYNTZ!® Green Tea with Ginseng Breath Mints – A sugar free mint with a special blend of refreshing peppermint and natural Green Tea extracts to create a unique, healthful, and flavorful breath mint experience. (Vitech America – MYNTZ! Brands)

Bubble Blowing Good Times

  • Bubble Gum Booster® – Gum gets a new lease on life when you recharge your flavorless gum with Bubble Gum Booster. Add the intense flavors of special crunchy candies to give your stale gum an added pizzazz. (The Topps Co. Inc.)
  • Orbit White Bubblemint – Renowned for its great taste and clean feeling, Orbit White gum blends fun flavors of bubblemint to help keep your smile sparkling white. (Wm Wrigley Jr. Company)
  • Morris National Bubble Doctor™ Gum Strips – Just what the doctor ordered: Original and Grape flavored band-aid gum strips for a quick fix to your tummy’s sweet spot. (Morris National, Inc.)

Indulgent Delights

  • Lindt Intense Pear Dark Chocolate – The ultimate blend of the finest dark chocolate and pieces of pear, perfectly balanced with the crisp texture of almonds for an intense chocolate experience. (Lindt & Springli Inc.)
  • Madelaine® Creamy Milk Chocolate Cappuccino Beans and Madelaine® Rich Dark Chocolate Espressso Beans – Gourmet cappuccino and espresso beans drenched in milk and dark chocolate respectively, simply indulgent delight. Madelaine® Latte and Espresso cups take two of the most popular coffees and mold them into edible truffle cups with a center complete with a melt-in-your mouth coffee flavored ganache. (Madelaine Chocolate Novelties)
  • Harvest Sweets® Truffles - In Cranberry, Blueberry, Key Lime fruit flavors these chocolate shelled candies are a sinfully delicious combination of chocolate and fruit sensation. (Cape Cod Provisions LLC)
  • Koookaburra Chai Malt Teazas offer a creative invention of flavor with chai tea spices mixed with rich creamy chocolate and covered with a malt ball center to create an alternative to the coffee shop. Also available from Kookaburra Liquorice, Kookaburra Chocolate Covered “Old Fashioned” Black Liquorice, a high quality upscale chocolate and black licorice combination creates a unique flavor that is pleasing to both chocolate and licorice lovers alike. (Kookabura Liquorice)
  • DeFranco’s Espresso Secrets – A mix of rich espresso and decadent chocolate, Espresso Secrets combines two of your favorite flavors to create one dynamic confection. (Espresso Secrets)
  • Dorval DROSTE® Chocolate Nuts Pastille Roll – Delectable milk chocolates with bits of almonds, hazelnuts, and nougat crunch pieces are deliciously divine for any chocolate lover. (Dorval Trading Company, Ltd.)
  • Chocolate Turin® Cherries– White Chocolate covered cherries join the Turin family of fruity flavors. (Chocolate Turin)

Not Your Pop’s Lollipop

  • Sin City™ Suckers – These six-sided, three-dimensional suckers look like real dice complete with hand painted dots and are available in Cherry Cherry Cherry, Orange You Lucky, Lucky Lemon, Four of a Lime, Grape of Spades, and Pina*Co*Slatta flavors. These treats are perfect for any poker night, Bunco party, Vegas wedding or anyone ready to take a gamble in life. (Sin City Suckers)
  • Hot Lix Scorpion Suckers – Enjoy edible scorpions encased in a hard candy sucker in Apple, Banana, Blueberry, and Strawberry. (Hotlix Candy Company)
  • CraniYUMS!® POPS –Kids will be nibbling, gnawing, stretching and pulling just to bite and lick their teeth into the new T-Rex lollipop with a hard candy skull covered in a gummie T-Rex face. (Barba, Becerra & Rogers Candy Company, LLC)
  • Tootsie Roll® Tropical Storms Tootsie Pops– Tropical flavors of Berry-Berry Punch, Orange-Pineapple, Lemon-Lime, Strawberry-Banana, and Citrus-Punch packed with a chewy tootsie roll inside makes takes these new pops to an extreme flavor level. . (Tootsie Roll)
  • Charms® Blow Pop Mouth Factory – Five Blow Pop bubble gum pieces and five candy crystal pouches in a re-sealable plastic portable clamshell offers consumers the opportunity to create their own combination of new favorite flavors. Also from Charms®, traditional blow pops with a twist, Charms®
  • Cherry Ice Blow Pops joins the Blow Pop family with a translucent candy shell that carries a tart cherry flavor. (Charms Company)
  • Spring Loaded Push Pop® – Moms everywhere are sure to be satisfied with Push Pops as they ‘spring’ away from stickiness. The candy’s new spring-loaded packaging helps to ensure less-sticky fingers and more classic flavor. (The Topps Co. Inc.)

Perfect Portions

  • Hershey’s Smart Zone™: Crunchy Chocolate Brownie Flavor – An optimal balance of nutrients to help satisfy your hunger with reduced amounts of carbs, fat and protein. (The Hershey Company)
  • Whitman’s Weight Watchers® Mint Patties and English Toffee Squares – Only one point on the Weight Watcher’s scale, a perfect delicious delight to bite into during the dieting day. (Russell Stover Candies)

Bonkers for Beans, Jelly Beans

  • Jelly Belly® Mint Trio – A medley of three minty flavors, spearmint, peppermint, and wintergreen, the new Jelly Belly takes on an entirely new meaning of mint-mania. Head to the ball park with Jelly Belly® Baked Beans, a bean’s bean. Homey, tasty and rich with molasses flavor the savory bean taste is comparable to slow-cooked beans straight from Fenway Park in Boston. (Jelly Belly Candy Company)

Chocolate Covered Candies

  • Brach’s® Orchard Fresh – Brach continues their chocolate and sugar candy tradition, with an added desire for healthy ingredients and portion control. The new line features Cherry, Strawberry, and Blueberry flavors. These bite-sized, real fruit puree centers are delicately covered in rich milk chocolate. (Brach’s Confections)
  • Wolfgang Sweet Dark Chocolate Covered Raspberries, Blueberries – Real blueberries and strawberries coated with sweet dark Wolfgang chocolate holds the fresh taste of fruit flavor in every bite of these delicacies. (Wolfgang Candy Company, Inc.)
  • Chocolate Bowl® Premium Fruit and Nuts - An exception assortment of delicious confections containing real fruit and nuts gently folded into our creamy chocolate for you to enjoy. (Brookside Foods, Ltd.)

Kids Candies

  • Sunny Foods Mallow Pizza – Mallow out with this 100% marshmallow pizza complete with all your favorite marshmallow-pizza toppings. (Sunny Products Development Ltd.)
  • Airhead® Sours – Extreme sour tastes makes Airheads OUT OF CONTROL and out of this world. (Perfetti Van Melle)
  • Mike Mussina Moose Bars – A milk chocolate and peanut butter bar named for major league starting pitcher Mike “The Moose” Mussina. A portion of sale profits will go to the Mike Mussina Foundation, helping to fund college scholarships and provide support to various charities. (Wolfgang Candy Company, Inc.)
  • Cap Candy Pull String Pop™ – Some now, the rest later. With Pull String Pop you can keep your unfinished lollipop at your side and simply zip it out when you want to finish it. Just clip the holder onto your backpack or belt buckle and pull the retractable string to bring your pop to you. Kid’s get their creative juices going with Cap Candy Artsy Tartsy Candy™. This interactive candy lets the consumer dip a candy paintbrush into the sour powder to create a masterpiece in your mouth. (Cap Candy)
  • Jelly Belly® Bertie Botts – As magical and whisimical as Harry Potter, these new jelly beans are perfect for any wizard or witch with new Rotten Egg and Bacon flavors. (Jelly Belly Candy Company)
  • Tubi’s Tire Tread™ Licorice – Tasty licorice disguised as tricky tire tread tracks. (Tundra Trading, Inc.)
  • Bogdon® Reception Sticks – A wedding reception favorite, these crisp hard candy favors made with a delicious taste of rich dark chocolate are now available in Kahlua and Amaretto flavor. (Bogdon Candy)
  • Dorval SOUR POWER® Sour Gum Balls – With a combination of fruity flavors, SOUR POWER Sour Gum Balls are a delicious treat for gum-lovers. Get a little daffy with Dorval Blazpberry Top Pop® Taffy Pop. Available in Strawberry, Watermelon, Pina Colada and Strawberry/Lemon flavors, Top Pop® Taffy Pop are the perfect choice for anytime treats. (Dorval Trading Company, Ltd.)
  • Sour Patch Connectors™ – Build your own fun as you pull, twist and connect tangy sour tastes of Tangerine, Lemon, Cherry, and Blue Raspberry halves with the gentle sweet flavors of Strawberry Cream, Tropical Punch, Bubble Gum, and Cotton Candy halves. With over 28 different combinations, this is a sure one-of-a-kind sweet and sour taste bud adventure. (Cadbury Adams USA)
  • PEZ® Bratz: Jade, Yasmin and Chole are the newest stylish characters for young girls to grab. (PEZ Candy Inc.)

Tempting Tastes and Flavors

  • Unican Kowz™ – Hard candy made with real milk and flavored with unique taste of fruit or chocolate. Kowz™ contains 36% - 38% milk. Candies come in Creamy Chocolate, Creamy Melon, Creamy Strawberry, and Creamy Banana. (Nexus Foods, Inc.)
  • Wycen Food Gummies – Mango, Strawberry, and Blackcurrant Gummy treats that are soft and sweet, perfect as a treat. (Wycan Foods Inc.)
  • Sesakiss™ – In honey with coconut, chocolate covered, vanilla, orange, or wildberry this unique sesame seed snack will nourish your body with tons of nutrients. (Lowell Food and Sweets)
  • PEZ® Dual Chamber Candy Lay-Down Bag - One PEZ® dispenser and 30 rolls of candy a perfect way to taste all the PEZ® flavors. Get festive this holiday season with PEZ® Lay-Down Candy Bag that include 101 Christmas themed mini PEZ®. (PEZ Candy Inc.)
  • Kidz Pack – No need to pick and choose what favorite Tootsie Roll candies to buy at the store, with Kidz Pack consumer can buy Charms, Tootsie and Double Bubble candies all in one bag. (Concord Confections, Inc.)

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Read about the products launched at the 2004 ALL CANDY EXPO®