The Annabelle Candy Company, also known as Annabelle's, is a candy manufacturer based in
Hayward, California
Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, and the third largest in ...
, United States. The company was founded in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
in 1950 by Russian immigrant Sam Altshuler, who named the company after his daughter.
History
The company moved in 1965 to Industrial Blvd., in Hayward, California.
In 1972 the Annabelle Candy Company purchased the Golden Nugget Company.
In 1978, the Annabelle Candy Company acquired the Cardinet Candy Company and added several new candy bars to its line of products. In 2022, the
Pearson's Candy Company
Pearson's Candy Company is an American chocolate and confectionery manufacturer headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded as a confectionery distribution firm in 1909, the company began to manufacture its own products in 1912. Originally ...
was sold to Annabelle Candy Company.
In 2016, the company set the
Guinness World Record
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a British reference book published annually, listi ...
for the ‘largest taffy’ which weighed in at more than 524 pounds.
Products
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Big Hunk
Big Hunk is a candy bar made by Annabelle Candy Company.
It first entered production in the 1950s, in the United States. It is a bar of roasted peanuts covered in chewy honey-sweetened nougat. When struck on a hard surface, such as a table, it ...
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Abba-Zaba
Abba-Zaba is a Taffy (candy), taffy candy bar with peanut butter center, made by the Annabelle Candy Company in Hayward, California.
History
According to the Candy Wrapper Museum, the first Abba Zaba bars were manufactured in 1922 by Colby and ...
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References
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External links
Annabelle Candy website
Companies based in Hayward, California
Food and drink companies established in 1950
1950 establishments in California
Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area
Confectionery companies based in California