You may remember them as a sweet treat from your childhood. Maybe you remember using them as roofing tiles or walkway pieces on your gingerbread houses. Perhaps, like me, they were the stand-in for ...

After a two-year hiatus following the closure of the New England Confectionary Company, or Necco, we have some good news to report about the brand’s signature candy: Necco Wafers are officially ...

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The Ohio-based Spangler Candy Co. offered the winning bid of $18.83 million for the iconic New England Confectionery Co., the country's oldest continuously operating candy company, at a federal ...

At the age of 3, Denise Tassin ate an entire bottle of orange-flavored aspirin. That link between candy and pills emerges decades later in her creations on display in Candyland at the James L. Pierce ...

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.