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Edward & Sons Trading Co. Inc.
NEW PRODUCTS
AND PROMOTIONS
Guylian USA Inc.
USA
The Guylian Twists Variety Pack for the
Christmas holidays holds three new flavors
of seahorse-shaped chocolates: dark chocolate with cappuccino filling, milk chocolate with caramel crisp filling and marbled
chocolate with strawberry filling, along
with three original flavors. The 4.51 oz
impulse pack has an s r p of $2.99. It ships
12 to a case or in a 48-count floorstand.
The Guylian Twists Heart for
Valentine’s Day 2007 holds individually wrapped chocolates in all
six Guylian Twists flavors. Each
6.11 oz heart box has an s r p of
$6.99 and ships in a 6-count
tray/case.
USA
Edward & Sons has added Fruity
Gummi Feet to its Let’s Do...
Organic line of USDA-certified
organic, vegan gummi candies.
The candies are made with
pectin instead of gelatin, in the
shape of little bare feet, and are
gluten free. Both the fruit flavors and colors are derived from organic fruit juices.
Each box contains four 25 g bags of bears.
Tel: +1 (805) 684 8500
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
www.edwardandsons.com
USA
Hershey’s Kisses Mini Cookies, made in the shape of Hershey’s Kisses, are available in
three flavors: Confetti Sprinkles, Chocolate Chip or
Chocolate Chocolate Chip.
Packaged in single-serving bags or boxes.
Hershey’s Snacksters Chocolate are a
mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate
chips, cereal puffs made with multigrain
cereal and mini chocolate chip cookies.
Reese’s Snacksters Peanut Butter has
cereal puffs and cereal squares made
with multigrain cereal, peanut butter
chips and Reese’s Pieces. Both are packaged in 2.4 oz pegbags.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Bar is
now available in two limited
edition versions: fudge and
milk chocolate. Each 1.3 oz bar
has a creamy peanut butter filling and either a fudgy chocolate or milk chocolate coating.
The Eclipse Big-E-Pak contains 60 pellets
of breath-freshening gum, about the same
as five single-serve packages. The new
packaging sits on a countertop or in a car
cupholder. The Big-E-Pak is available in
Spearmint and Winterfrost flavors.
Eclipse breath-freshening mints are now
available in Spearmint flavor.
Life Savers Gummies Fruit Splosions are
fruit-flavored gummies with real fruit juice
in the center, available in three varieties: Traditional 5 Flavor, Sour Cherry and a Variety
Pack (strawberry, blackberry, orange and
watermelon flavors).
Creme Savers Desserts hard candies
are available in three dessert-like flavors:
Cinnamon Bun, Apple Pie a la Mode
and Strawberry Cheesecake.
Winterfresh
Winterbursts are liquid-filled
mints with a crunchy mint
shell for two waves of breath freshening.
Hubba Bubba
Max chunk bubble gum has a new flavor, Outrageous Original.
Altoids gum also has new flavors, Spearmint and Wintergreen.
Altoids Smalls mints are now
available in Wintergreen flavor.
Orbit gum is now offered in
two new flavors, Lemon-Lime
and Crystal Mint.
Tel: +1 (717) 534 3660
Tel: +1 (312) 644 2121
Tel: +1 (201) 871 4144
www.guylian.be
The Hershey Company
USA
www.hersheys.com
68 June 2006 • The Manufacturing Confectioner
www.wrigley.com