NEW PRODUCTS AND PROMOTIONS

Harmony Foods Harmony Foods fat free Bold NEW PRODUCTS Beans are now available in Hal- AND PROMOTIONS loween colors, packaged in 8 oz Scream Beans laydown bags and bulk packs. Herman Goelitz Candy Company/ Also offered for Halloween by Goelitz Confectionery Company Harmony is a Haunted House Under license from the makers of Dr Pepper, Herman module which hold six cases. Fla- Goelitz Candy Co. and vors include Halloween orange, Goelitz Confectionery Co. white and black Sour Bears; Hal- have introduced Jelly Belly loween Gummy Bears in orange jelly beans using the real Dr and black; Gummy Halloween Pepper syrup for flavor. The Mix, witches, pumpkins and other Halloween favorites; syrup for this spicy soda pop Sour Pumpkin Heads, pumpkin gels with a sour orange is made from a secret recipe of 23 fruit and spice flavors. taste; orange pumpkin gels and candy corn. The use of a licensed flavoring to make a new Jelly Fax: +1 (408) 457 3437. Belly bean is a marketing move toward co-branding. Other co-branded flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans Tivoli Brands Inc. include A&W Root Beer and Hawaiian Punch. Black Tie Chocolate Mint Creams are now available Also announced is a new candy novelty called Day- from Tivoli Brands, Inc. Chocolate surrounds a cordial crawlers. A plastic container mint center and is then filled with brown sugar is wrapped in Italian gold foil, home to sour gummi worms. embossed with the Black Each container of Day- Tie logo. crawlers has 3 oz of brown The United States Patent sugar and 8 oz of sour and Trademark office has gummi worms in pineapple, awarded the exclusive Black lemon, cherry, orange and lime flavors. Six tubs are Tie logo registration for packed in each case. Tivoli Brands, Inc. The logo Additionally Goelitz Confections Candy Corn, is designed with a simple Chocolate Dutch Mints and Licorice Bridge Mix are graphic and features a black now available in bright checkerboard boxes with clear tie, lapel, and studs. windows, in honor of the Fax: +1 (818) 892 4186. company’s 100th anniver- sary. The packages which are designed to stand verti- Tapper Candies Inc. cally or lay down on the Tapper Candies has signed a letter of intent to combine shelf, hold between 4.25 oz efforts with Just Born Candy Co. to manufacture and and 5 oz of candy. Each is market a Marshmallow Peep interactive candy item. packed in 12-count cases. Tapper Candies has also been given permission from Also sugarfree Jelly Belly jelly beans now come in a Herman Goelitz Candy Co. to develop and produce an glass apothecary jar. Each jar is filled with 7 oz of indi- interactive candy item featuring Jelly Belly candies. Tap- vidually wrapped sugarfree Jelly Belly beans. Because per plans to launch the item, called the Jelly Belly Juggler most sugarfree candies are sensitive to moisture in the air at this year’s All Candy Expo in Chicago. and have a tendency to stick due to the artificial sweet- Additionally, Tapper Candies has reached a licensing eners, the twist wraps on sugarfree Jelly Belly beans keep agreement with Universal Studios to manufacture and them fresh. The Jelly Belly sugarfree twist apothecary jars market a line of interactive candy items featuring the are packed six to a case. Curious George character. Fax: +1 (707) 423 4436. Fax: +1 (216) 518 1549.

158 June 1998 • The Manufacturing Confectioner