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Sugarwish

Making ‘Sugarwishes’ Come True: Elisabeth Vezzani and Leslie Lyon create a confectionery gifting service that lets the recipient choose the candy.

Sugarwish is the online candy gifiting company finding success and spreading smiles.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
February 23, 2016
“The first day beta launched, we saw someone send from California to Arizona, and then the person in Arizona turned around and sent one to Massachusetts, and then the person in Massachusetts sent one to Florida, and they hadn’t even received the gift,” says Elisabeth Vezzani. “Right from the beginning, I just felt really confident that if we gave it our all we had something.”
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Sticky's Candy

Canada-based Sticky’s Candy stores pull in customers with nostalgia, selection

Canadian confectionery retailer has 25 stores and counting in the Vancouver area.
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
January 22, 2016
“We have all the competitors that everybody else does in the States,” say founder Robin Burnette. “We have all the grocery stores, Walmart. They’re selling chocolate bars. [But] in Canada they sell all Canadian chocolate bars. A majority of Canadians go south in the winter time, so we carry a lot of U.S. chocolate bars. We’ve got that chocolate bar that you like from the States that you found, and we also bring in the British chocolate and a lot of Dutch licorice.”
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The Capital Candy Jar: A delicious treat in D.C.

Consultant turns teen-age, money-making hobby into a career that sweetens the life of D.C. residents and politicians.
Bernie Pacyniak
August 18, 2015
Working out of a kitchen just a few blocks north of the U.S. Capitol building, Dave Burton and his team create an assortment of lollipops, flavored marshmallows, chocolate-covered Oreos, divinity, barks and other tasty confections.
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