Each year Candy Industry compiles a list of the Top 100 candy companies in the world. Below, you’ll not only find out where candy company ranks, but also their estimated net sales, how many employees they have and which products they make. Have feedback? Editor-in-chief Crystal Lindell would love to hear from you! Just shoot her a note at lindellc@bnpmedia.com.
Welcome to our exclusive list of the Top 100 Confectionery Companies in the World! Click through the pages to find out which companies made the cut, and which candymakers were in the Top 10.
Below is the top 26 through 50.
| 1-25 | 26-50 | 51-75 | 76-100 |
Emeryville, Calif.
Last Year's Ranking: 24
Net Sales (Millions): $900 5
Chief Officer Title: Gary Erickson & Kit Crawford, co-ceos
Number of Employees: 1,160
Number of Plants: 2
Products Manufactured:
Kiev, Ukraine
Last Year's Ranking: 25
Net Sales (Millions): $800
Chief Officer Title: Vyacheslav Moskalevsky, pres.
Number of Employees: 10,000
Number of Plants: 8
Products Manufactured:
Oslo, Norway
Last Year's Ranking: 26
Net Sales (Millions): $769
Chief Officer Title: Peter A. Ruzicka, pres. & CEO
Number of Employees: 3,271
Number of Plants: 15
Products Manufactured:
Aachen, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 30
Net Sales (Millions): $732
Chief Officer Title: Dr. Hermann Buhlbecker
Number of Employees: 3,500
Number of Plants: 7
Products Manufactured:
Stockholm, Sweden
Last Year's Ranking: 28
Net Sales (Millions): $730
Chief Officer Title: Henri de Sauvage-Nolting, pres. & CEO
Number of Employees: 2,600
Number of Plants: 8
Products Manufactured:
NY, NY
Last Year's Ranking: 27
Net Sales (Millions): $719
Chief Officer Title: Daniel Lubetzky, founder & CEO
Number of Employees: 700 1
Number of Plants: n/a
Products Manufactured:
Mexico City, Mexico
Last Year's Ranking: 31
Net Sales (Millions): $700
Chief Officer Title: Ricardo Padilla Anguiano, pres. of Barcel
Number of Employees: 3,000
Number of Plants: 3
Products Manufactured:
Hannover, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 32
Net Sales (Millions): $659
Chief Officer Title: Werner M. Bahlsen, chair; Scott Brankin, Michael Hahnel, Jorg Honemann, & Daniella Mundler, man. directors
Number of Employees: 2,830
Number of Plants: 6
Products Manufactured:
Hamburg, Germany, & Brugge, Belgium
Last Year's Ranking: 33
Net Sales (Millions): $636
Chief Officer Title: Fons Walder, CEO
Number of Employees: 1,490
Number of Plants: 10
Products Manufactured:
Purchase, NY, USA
Last Year's Ranking: 36
Net Sales (Millions): $630
Chief Officer Title: Ramon Laguarta, CEO
Number of Employees: 274,000*
Number of Plants: 700*
Products Manufactured:
Carle Place, N.Y., USA
Last Year's Ranking: 33
Net Sales (Millions): $600
Chief Officer Title: Chris McCann, CEO
Number of Employees: 2,000 ³
Number of Plants: 4
Products Manufactured:
Polch, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 35
Net Sales (Millions): $591
Chief Officer Title: Andreas Land, managing partner
Number of Employees: 2,100
Number of Plants: 4
Products Manufactured:
Gladbach, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 37
Net Sales (Millions): $590
Chief Officer Title: Marc Krueger, CEO
Number of Employees: 1,000
Number of Plants: 4
Products Manufactured:
Waldenbuch, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 38
Net Sales (Millions): $568
Chief Officer Title: Andreas Ronken, CEO
Number of Employees: 1,500
Number of Plants: 1
Products Manufactured:
Medellin, Colombia
Last Year's Ranking: 39
Net Sales (Millions): $511
Chief Officer Title: Jorge Eusebio Arango, CEO of choc. div.
Number of Employees: 3,792
Number of Plants: 5
Products Manufactured:
Chicago, Ill., USA
Last Year's Ranking: 39
Net Sales (Millions): $510
Chief Officer Title: Ellen Gordon, chair & CEO
Number of Employees: 2,200
Number of Plants: 7
Products Manufactured:
Downers Grove, Ill., USA
Last Year's Ranking: 40
Net Sales (Millions): $487
Chief Officer Title: Richard Scalise, chair & CEO
Number of Employees: 1,694
Number of Plants: 13
Products Manufactured:
Santiago, Chile
Last Year's Ranking: 42
Net Sales (Millions): $475
Chief Officer Title: Gonzalo Bofill Velarde, pres.; Sebastian Garcia Tagle, CEO
Number of Employees: 5,060
Number of Plants: 5
Products Manufactured:
Donetsk, Ukraine
Last Year's Ranking: 43
Net Sales (Millions): $473
Chief Officer Title: Mishalov Sergey, CEO
Number of Employees: 8,097
Number of Plants: 5
Products Manufactured:
Emmerich, Germany
Last Year's Ranking: 44
Net Sales (Millions): $470
Chief Officer Title: Tobias Bachmuller & Bastian Fassin, man. directors
Number of Employees: 1,500
Number of Plants: 8
Products Manufactured:
Pasig, Philippines
Last Year's Ranking: 45
Net Sales (Millions): $455
Chief Officer Title: James L. Go, chair; Lance Gokongwei, pres. & CEO
Number of Employees: 9,117*
Number of Plants: 22*
Products Manufactured:
Jakarta, Indonesia
Last Year's Ranking: 46
Net Sales (Millions): $450
Chief Officer Title: Andre Atmadja, CEO
Number of Employees: 9,000
Number of Plants: 6
Products Manufactured:
S. San Francisco, Calif., USA
Last Year's Ranking: 47
Net Sales (Millions): $430
Chief Officer Title: Brad Kinstler, pres. & CEO
Number of Employees: 1,500< sup>2
Number of Plants: 3
Products Manufactured:
Cali, Colombia
Last Year's Ranking: 34
Net Sales (Millions): $430
Chief Officer Title: Cesar Caicedo, pres.
Number of Employees: 5,147
Number of Plants: 4
Products Manufactured:
Singapore
Last Year's Ranking: 80
Net Sales (Millions): $426
Chief Officer Title: Pedro Mata, chair; John Chuang, CEO
Number of Employees: 4,000
Number of Plants: 2
Products Manufactured:
Note on methodology: All sales, plant and employee estimates are for confectionery operations only, unless otherwise noted. In addition, Candy Industry has attempted to factor out industrial chocolate sales and plants. All estimates come from a combination of manufacturer surveys, annual reports, media reports, private and published research, and analyst interviews. For most public companies, projections were made for fiscal 2018. In some cases, the previous year’s sales were used with a correction for growth from the current year’s reports. For most private companies, sales are estimated for calendar year 2018. Currencies have been converted based on the average exchange rate from January-October 2018, and are highlighted in red. Wherever data was lacking, information is noted as N/A (not available).
* Includes non-confectionery items
1 Includes part-time or temporary workers
2 See’s Candies has 1,500 year-round employees; 6,000 seasonally
3 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has 2,000 year-round employees; 8,000 seasonally
4 This only includes consumer goods. Natra also has sales of $139 million in industrial goods.
5 Clif Bar doesn’t disclose sales figures but experts believe the numbers could be near $1 billion.
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