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All Candy Expo 2008 Dates:
May 20-22, 2008
This lens features information about the annual trade show, All Candy Expo sponsored by the National Confectioners Association. It is held each year at Chicago's McCormick Place. Exhibitors include manufacturers and marketers offering the latest candy, chocolate, salty, nutty treats from around the world.
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Things That Stood Out In 2006
While I have several blog posts already that you can read below, here are some additional thoughts about this year's All Candy Expo.
- 1. "Retro" Candy companies seemed to have more fun. Companies like Judson-Atkinson Candies, Goetze's, and Necco all had great people who took the time to chat and truly it felt like they understood their brands and loved their jobs.
- Two days in the "world's largest candy store" is just too much ... I can't imagine how I would feel if I hadn't skipped the last day of the show!
- What was the purpose of the Candy Room?
Outside of the day after Thanksgiving, I haven't seen adults push and shove each other trying to get something like what I saw in the Candy Room at the Expo.
Basically you had a room and each person was given a sample bag in which to put a selection of candies to take home with them. Occasionally a "really good" treat was put out into one of the bins and all hell breaks loose.
While I was in there, they dumped a bunch of Beer Nuts cans and people ran from one side of the room to the other just to get it before someone else did. NUTS! - What were kids doing at a tradeshow?
Repeatedly I saw kids with bags overflowing with candy and the smiling parents doing nothing to curb the little piggy's penchant for sugary snacks. - What am I going to do with all these samples that jumped into my own bags?
I wasn't trying to collect stuff ... honest! But now my kitchen table features a collection of candies and snacks ranging from Garfield's Chocobites (M&M knockoff) to SweetTarts Squeez and various foreign candies that I don't even remember picking up (or know what they even are). - Mint and Watermelon DON'T mix!
I don't care how awesome the brand guys for Extra think the name "Cool Watermelon" sounds ... the flavor SUCKS.
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- All Candy Expo Official Website
- Discover the profits of candy at the All Candy Expo?, the largest, most important confectionery show in the Americas!
- Our Chicago Conventions Blog
- Information about All Candy Expo and other Conventions, Expos, and Trade Shows in Chicago
McCormick Place
Blogs Run by James and Heather Hills
- Chicago Convention Help
- Chicago Convention Help specializes in helping businesses who are exhibiting at conventions in Chicagoland. We work with them to connect with media (trade and local), provide staffing solutions and general marketing services.
Additionally, we offer meeting and social event planning services for our clients while in the Windy City. - marketinghelpnet.com
- marketinghelpnet.com specializes in helping small business owners, entrepreneurs, and inventors connect with the media, consumers, and potential trade partners.
Our services include: press release writing, website design, search engine optimization / SEO, marketing and media relations strategy, and advertising.
Our clients include businesses from vending, coin-op amusement, IT consulting, manufacturing and the video games industry. - Grow Together Blog
- Our blog about Integrated Online Marketing. Articles and topics are designed for use by small business owners. We also run Monday morning workshops on topics discussed in the blog from our office in Elgin, Illinois.
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