With Halloween fast approaching, Fast Company has an interesting article for those with a sweet tooth.
The U.S. candy manufacturing industry includes about 1,600 companies, but just 2 (the Hersheys Co. and Mars Snackfoods U.S.) make 15 of the top-20 selling chocolate candy bars.
Only 26% of homes gives out full-sized candy bars. Fun-sized Snickers bars are the most popular Halloween candy.
Treat: Austin, Charlotte, and San Antonio lead U.S. Halloween spending on candy and decorations, with $53 per household.
Trick: Cincinnati spends the least, $35.
93% of kids go trick-or-treating.
There are 22 M&M colors.
Mar’s M&Ms are the most popular chocolate candies in the United States, with annual sales of almost $425 million.
Halloween is responsible for three-fourths of candy corn’s annual sales.
October 30th is national Candy Corn Day. Nearly 9 billion pieces of candy corn are produced annually.
Prohibition was a sweet age of revenge: Baby Ruths, Oh Henry!, Charleston Chew, Mounds, Milky Way, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Bit-O-Honey, Mr Goodbar, Milk Duds, Butterfinger, and Snickers all debuted between 1920 and 1930.
America will spend $9 billion on Halloween. The average person will spend $20.39 of that on candy.
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