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Few products have achieved the iconic status of PEEPS®, the yellow, chick-shaped marshmallow confection beloved by children and adults alike. But, as popular as PEEPS® has become, it is only one of the many delicious products produced by Just Born, an 87-year-old, family-owned confectionery company based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Just Born candy tradition actually began in 1910 when Sam Born emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. A candy maker by trade, Born used innovative technology to produce chocolate sprinkles, known as Jimmies, and the hard chocolate coating for ice cream bars. In 1916, Born invented a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops.

Contrary to the old adage (often erroneously attributed to P.T. Barnum, but that's another story), 480 suckers are born every minute. Four hundred and eighty is the number of lollipops that Kendon Candies makes every hour. (Actually, the company cites the figure 15,000 a day; your intrepid writer has done the math based on an eight-hour day.) At any rate, Kendon is one of the country's top manufacturers of hard-candy lollipops. Its rainbow-colored pinwheel, round-up, seasonal, and specialty-shaped sweets on a stick are sold at amusement parks, zoos, restaurants, candy stores, and gift shops. Kendon Candies was founded in the 1950s by Tom Kennedy, who still owns and operates the company.

Kent Gida Maddeleri Sanayii ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi wants to sweeten your world view. Kent Gida Maddeleri Sanayii ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, known as Kent, makes about 30 varieties of candy, gum, and chocolate, which are distributed in more than 100 countries. Its products include Cadbury Grand Chocolates, Villa chocolates, Topi Top lollipops, Jelibon gummies, and Relax gum. Kent is a publically trading company. The UK's candy giant, Cadbury, owns about 95% of Kent and a majority of Birlik, Kent's distribution arm. Kent began in 1927 making the traditional Turkish sesame-seed-based candy called tahin.

Frank P. O’Connor began a small, Toronto-based candy business selling hand-made chocolates. He adopted the name Laura Secord, after the Canadian heroine because she was an icon of courage, devotion and loyalty. Laura Secord started as a single shop on Yonge Street in Toronto. O’Connor turned the flat above the shop into a kitchen and prepared his own products. Success prompted the company’s expansion across Ontario and Quebec and in the 1930’s an office was opened in Winnipeg and drugstore agencies were appointed as Laura Secord outlets, or service shops.

Just after the turn of the century, a young Armenian named Armen Tertsagian emigrated from the Near East to the United States, working his way from Ellis Island across the rugged continent to the infant city of Seattle. There he met Mark Balaban, another young Armenian who was visiting from England. It wasn't long before the two became fast friends and decided to venture into business together. But life in Seattle was far from easy. Their initial business ventures-- a yogurt factory and an Armenian restaurant-- were both ahead of their time. And the gray, wet winters were difficult for people used to the balmy eastern Mediterranean climate.

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