I own a retail store and have recently committed to only carrying Canadian made products. We have a candy section which has taken a big hit when I removed an the imported items, and I'm looking for Canadian made candy products! Gummies, caramel, taffy, bubble gum, hard candy, fun things for kids, that kind of stuff.
I already stock Canadian made cotton candy, chocolates and hot chocolate but not having much luck with the rest.
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For anyone looking through here for the same thing, here's what I found. Not a ton of candy manufacturers in Canada (lots of chocolates/fudge though)
I ordered from:
Candylabs in QC - SUPER cute products and delicious, they arents as hard as they look, like little crunchy bursts of flavour
Big Sky in Toronto - things like hard candies and mints in cute tins
Wildly Canadian in Thunderbay - a bunch of gummy options
Kerrs in Oakville - more hard candies mostly
And a useful resource was Faire - an online wholesale distributor for smaller brands, they let you filter by made in Canada though double check the results, some of them were clearly mislabelled.
We just tried these on our show after hearing about them constantly from Canadians and I found the hype to be real. They’re kinda like Nutty Buddys but without the peanut butter (which is negative to me).