Brach’s is a candy and sweets brand of Ferrara Candy Company, an American candy manufacturer, based in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by the Ferrero Group.
Brach’s is not the original maker of candy corn. Candy corn dates from 1898, originally a product of Chicago’s Goelitz Confectionary Company, which made a candy corn called Chicken Feed. Goelitz later introduced the Jelly Belly in 1976. The company, founded in 1869, is now known as Jelly Belly. It is the oldest continuous maker of candy corn, a nutritional food group in the U.S.
The story of Brach’s started in 1904 when Emil J. Brach invested his $1,000 life savings in a storefront candy store located at the corner of North Avenue and Towne Street in Chicago, Illinois. He named it “Brach’s Palace of Sweets”. Investing in additional equipment he was able to lower his production costs and sell his candy for 20 cents per pound, well below the more typical 50 cents per pound his competitors were charging. By 1911, his production had reached 50,000 pounds per week.
The company changed hands multiple times through the 20th century, ending up in the hands of Farley & Sathers, and now the Ferrara Candy Company. They have returned packaging to some of the original Brach’s blocks. On some packaging, the purple appears, though the corn, which sells through Thanksgiving, has the requisite orange and yellow.
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