The Cardinet Candy Company was a maker of confections in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

. Its most famous product was the

U-No Bar The U-NO Bar is a truffle type bar with almond bits covered in a thin layer of chocolate, and wrapped in a silver foil-like wrapper. It is comparable to a 3 Musketeers bar in appearance but has a higher fat per gram ratio. Its center is a choco ...

. The company was founded in 1909 by Emile H. Cardinet to produce his invention, the U-No Bar. In 1978, the company was acquired by the

Annabelle Candy Company The Annabelle Candy Company, also known as Annabelle's, is a candy manufacturer based in Hayward, California, United States. The company was founded in San Francisco, California in 1950 by Russian immigrant Sam Altshuler, who named the company af ...

located 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 ...

References

External links

Obituary of George Cardinet Jr.

"Death of a U-No Bar", Hogsalt
Confectionery companies based in California Food and drink companies disestablished in 1978 Defunct food and drink companies of the United States Food and drink companies established in the 1920s 1920s establishments in California Manufacturing companies based in Oakland, California {{food-company-stub