The Best Selling Candy Products in the USA are Completely Brand Focused

PRLog (Press Release) - Aug. 13, 2011 - Best Selling Candy Products in the United States are Completely Brand Focused
(and Gum is chewing away the competition)!

With Halloween just a few months away, I thought today would be the perfect time to post about the best selling candy products/brands in the United States.  As I’ve learned in the past by sharing the  best selling soda and best selling beer lists, this information can often be notoriously hard to track down.  Fortunately for us, Business Week recently featured some information on the best-selling candy in the United States.  Any surprises for me on this list?  One big one: Americans LOVE gum. Love it!  Different gum brands made up 5 of the top 10 spots in total sales and 9 of the top 25 (PLUS tic-tacs and ice breakers made the top 25).  When I started looking for this information, I wasn’t counting on gum being such a major player.

Since this list is inspired by Halloween (and I’m not aware of people regularly giving out gum to trick-or-treaters),
I present to you the top ten best-selling non-gum candy brands in the United States:

   M & M’s – $673.2 million
   Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – $516.5 million
   Hershey’s bar – $475 million
   Snickers – $441.1 million
   Kit Kat – $198.9 million
   Twix – $172.4 million
   Twizzlers – $158.1 million
   Skittles – $150.2 million
   Dove - $144.8 million
   3 Musketeers – $138.4 million

(Sales data is from IRI research company and is for the 52-week period ending on August 6th of this year)
~Just missed the cut: Starburst, Milky Way, Butterfinger and Hershey’s Kisses.

~For those curious, the top gum brands are:
Orbit, Trident, 5, Stride, Extra, Eclipse, Trident White, Dentyne Ice and Orbit White

Any surprises? Any candy you thought would be on the list that isn’t?
Anything clock-in higher on the sales list than expected?

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About MXI Corp (Marketing Xocolate International Corporation):
Established in 2005, Marketing Xocolate International Corporation (MXI-Corp) is the world leader in natural antioxidant products with a particular focus on healthy, dark (and now milk) chocolate products.  All MXI Corp products are focused on potent doses of delicious, antioxidant-rich Belgian cacao.  MXI Corp believes that the high levels of natural antioxidants that are found in its cacao can provide a viable solution to individual nutritional needs.  The Xoçai™ (show-sigh) product line, which currently includes nine products, is manufactured utilizing a proprietary cold-press process, which preserves the nutritional values of the company’s proprietary blends of vitamins and minerals.  Nevada-based MXI Corp is a “privately held” company.  The Brooks family, owners and operators of MXI Corp, have total combined chocolate sales of more than $1 billion.

~MXI Corp currently operates in 25+ countries and has over 200,000 distributors.
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