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Bittermans Make Sure Customers 'Have a Sweet Day'
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Article features Bitterman Family Confections located at 3107 Gillham Road. They have been in business for three generations of their family and are known by their slogan "Have a Sweet Day." Marilyn Bitterman is credited with starting the group's first retail store located at 31st and Oak. Leslie Bitterman got the first account in a Hallmark Card store, and that remains a mainstay in the business today. "Today, the Bittermans said, more than half of their business involves chocolate, with the remainder various types of hard and soft candies, cookies and nuts. They carry as many as 900 products, depending on the season." The article states that they were the first to introduce Jelly Belly candies to this area. Also mentioned is the fact that they have hired many Muslim immigrants and have a room set aside in the warehouse for them to pray.
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2007-06-01
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Newspaper Article
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Russell Stover Savors Sweet Spot
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Article describes changes and adaptations of the candy company that accounts for "more than 60 percent of U.S. boxed chocolate sales." Brothers Tom and Scott Ward are co-presidents of the privately held company.
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2007-06-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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A Sweet Transition at Chocolate Store
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Owners of Panache Chocolatier, Eileen Cohen and Sharon Hoffman who want to spend more time with family, sold their business to Mark and Barbara Bailey of Lenexa. Cohen and Hoffman first opened a Kron Chocolatier store on the Country Club Plaza in 1979, but three years later converted it to Panache. Two of the signature candies of the store at 418 Nichols Road is Choco Poppo and Choco Flakes.
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Date
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2007-06-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Heading to New York
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Kansas City's Bogdon Candy Co., founded in 1945 in Kansas City, has been bought by Richardson Foods Inc. of Canajoharie, New York. The local office and manufacturing plant located at 2316 Troost Avenue has 26 employees. Bogdon's signature candy is the Reception Stick, "a crisp hard candy rolled by hand into thin sticks and dipped almost full-length into bittersweet chocolate." The move will take place in late 2010 or early 2011.
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2009-08-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
