
Halloween 2006
Lindor Truffles get Ghostly
Lindt & Sprungli (USA) Inc.
(603) 778-8100
Lindor Truffles are all dressed up for Halloween in
their traditional 5.1-ounce stand-up bags featuring Lindor Milk Chocolate
Truffles in an orange Jack-O-Lantern Wrapper and orange bag and Lindor Milk
& White Chocolate Truffles in a white-on-black ghost wrapper in a black
bag. They are both available in floor shippers and powerwings; the 48-count
floor shipper is packed with 24 Jack-O-Lantern Truffle Bags and 24 Ghost
Truffle Bags, and the 27-count powerwing is pre-packed with 18
Jack-O-Lantern Truffle Bags and nine Ghost Truffle Bags.
Brainiax and Franken-Fingers
Sherwood Brands Inc.
(301) 309-6161
The latest in Halloween novelty fun from Sherwood
Brands includes Brainiax “monster” heads with “alien” brain pops.
The key candy attraction — brain lollis with scary alien eyes that
“pop” out of Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf heads as spooky
music plays. The suggested retail price is $1.79.
Franken-Fingers,
green-apple-flavored gummy “thumbs on a candy bone,” are
available as singles in a 24-count “fast-food” bucket that
warns of “frightening finger food” or in a three-pack.
Halloween Bubbagum Candy Teeth
Bubbagum
(651) 695-0520
For trick-or-treaters that want to have their teeth and
eat them too, Halloween Bubbagum Candy Teeth are 100 percent edible. The
Halloween lineup features four characters with bad teeth including: Count
Vlad, the Vampire, and Jolly Old Roger, the pirate. All come with candy
teeth, bubblegum and a free sticker in every package. Display options
include a 12-piece display tray, 24-piece display tray, and 96-piece wing
display.
Ghoulish Gummies
Candy Tech
(847) 229-1011
Halloween Tins filled with Gummi Frankenstein Brains
and Vampire Fangs (each complete with the appropriate Frankenstein head tin
and Vampire head tin) are the latest Halloween invention from Candy Tech.
Packed 12 tins per display.
Autumn Assortment
R.M. Palmer
(610) 372-8971
These miniature foiled chocolatey bars come in a bag
adorned with the signature colors of autumn. The assortment includes four
varieties — fudge-filled, peanut-butter-filled, Double Crisp and
peanuts. The bags of mini-bars, each of which has a suggested retail price
of $5, come packed 12 per case.
Finger Pops
Malibu Toys
(818) 772-7888
Malibu Toys continues to “light up” the
candy industry for Halloween. Finger Pops with Spooky Bands are perfect
Halloween party favors that come with glow-in-the-dark orange wrist bands
and have a suggested retail price of 99 cents.
Haunted Heads and
Halloween Pop-Itz
Ford Gum & Machine Co.
(847) 573-0800
Designed to meet the “rapidly growing trend
towards school and at-home parties during the Halloween season, Ford
Gum’s Halloween lineup includes Haunted
Heads Bubble Gum Balls in a 12-ounce bag.
These black and orange gumballs feature six different printed
Jack-O-Lantern faces, orange- and cherry-flavored, in each bag. They are
available in 12-pack display-ready cases with a suggested retail price of
$1.99-$2.29.
Halloween Pop-Itz is a
push-button action gumball dispenser available in three different Halloween
characters in spooky blister card packages. Every blister pack includes
Halloween riddles and games and 15 gumballs. The dispenser refills with any
standard size gumballs and has a suggested retail price of $1.99. They are
available in 12-pack display-ready cases.
Flix Keeps It Poppin' at Halloween
Flix has taken the popularity of the Batman Projector
Pop into Halloween. New Halloween Projector Pops feature spooky images
of a witch on a broomstick, a spider and a ghost. Available in counter and
floorstand displays with “white space” that encourages kids to
“try me” and “shine” the projector pop
“here.”
And for all those kids wearing “evergreen”
Superman costumes, the company offers a Superman Projector Ring Pop. A
button on the ring base gets pressed when kids put the ring on their finger
— this automatically activates the light which can project three
different Superman images/logos. The company’s research shows kids
want more images than just one; also, the ring format is the most popular
in novelty candy. Variety is likewise presented in the assorted pop flavors:
watermelon, green apple, and blue raspberry. Available in 12-count counter
displays and 72-count shippers, the Superman Projector Ring Pop carries a
suggested retail price of $1.29-$1.49.
Flix Candy/Imaginings 3,
(847) 647-1370