In May 2020, the Spangler Candy Company announced that it was bringing back its Necco Wafers after a 2-year hiatus. Naturally, people began asking when the chocolate version would also be making a ...

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Panicked Twinkies lovers lost their minds when Hostess shut down in 2012. Thankfully, the company made a swift and sweet comeback, with an assist by TODAY's Al Roker, in 2013. But now another classic ...

Hundreds of former Necco employees went to the Rumney Marsh Academy in Revere for a job fair on Wednesday in hopes of finding new work. It's been nearly a month since they picked up their final ...

Necco, the country's oldest continuously operating candy company, shut down operations at its Massachusetts plant Tuesday after being sold to a new company just months after it was purchased at a ...

Fans of the polarizing wafer candy Necco Wafers have reason to celebrate. On Wednesday, Spangler Candy announced that the candy, touted on the wrapper as "The Original Candy Wafer", will be available ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Workers at the Necco factory in Revere returned to the plant Friday to pick up their last paycheck and Sen. Ed Markey was there to greet the laid-off workers. The plant shut down ...

The bankrupt 171-year-old candy maker known for its chalky Necco Wafers and those little inscribed hearts that are everywhere on Valentine’s Day got a sweet message from a rival Wednesday: BE MINE.

An investment company known for turning around struggling consumer companies will acquire Necco after an agreement with an Ohio candy company fell apart, the companies said yesterday. At a bankruptcy ...