The bulk Jelly Belly jellybean department is 32-feet long, with more than 160 bins to dispense as much or as little of the 80 flavors that you want. The inventory levels and selection is unmatched by anyone… Anywhere. Sweeties purchases all of its candy direct from more than 190 different candy manufacturers. The warehouse store has all of the old time candy favorites and all of the new kid's crazes. 16 aisles are stacked 20 feet in the air, packed packed with more than 4,500 different candies and valued at more than $3,000,000.00! Today, the company manages over 80,000 square feet of retail, manufacturering, and distribution to supply over 1,000 location with candy and popcorn.The 40,000-square-foot building contains more than 500,000 pounds of candy. In late 2022, the company purchased Olympia Treats in Strongsville, a popcorn and chocolate manufacturer. 2022 included opening the new 11,000 square foot Sweeties Popcorn Kitchen and distribution facility. In 2021, the company purchased the assets of Humphrey Popcorn Company, a 125-year-old Cleveland based popcorn manufacturer. COVID killed the Sweeties Big Fun Store and the Sweeties West Side Marker location and both were permanently closed. Also in late 2020, the company purchased Campbell’s Sweets Factory, a popcorn and sweets manufacturer and its multiple locations. In 2020, the company purchased an additional 1 acre parcel on the campus that housed a Denny’s Restaurant that closed due to COVID. This new business led to explosive growth capitalizing on selling more product to its existing wholesale customer base. In February 2019, Sweeties opened a new popcorn kitchen in the main building and started manufacturing a variety of flavored popcorn to local grocery stores. Sweeties Candy of Arizona moved to a larger 13,000 square foot location. Sweetie’s Big Fun in Orange Village and Sweetie’s Golfland North Ridgeville both opened in June 2018. In 2017, Sweetie’s opened a small branch location in Cleveland’s West Side Market. The top wholesale customers include Heinens Fine Foods, Daves Supermakets, Acme Fresh Market, It’Sugar Candy Stores, Pat Catan Craft Stores, and hundreds of independently owned retailers. The campus includes the largest candy store in North America, the 150 seat Sweetie’s Soda Shoppe parlor, and the 36 hole Sweetie’s Golfland Park. In January 2015, the company opened a new 40,000 square foot candy store on its new 5 acre headquarter campus. The top wholesale customers included Tops Supermarkets. Sweetie’s Candy of Arizona was opened in July 2010. The company expanded into the web business in 1999. Over the next 12 years, the company continued to buy out neighboring store leases and expand the store 3 times to 21,000 square feet. As the business grew, so did the need for more space. The 6,000 square foot building was retrofitted to incorporate the new “Big Box” design of selling candy to the public. The company moved east on Brookpark Road about mile to its new home at 7480 Brookpark Road. The company’s top wholesale customers include Stop&Shop, Marc’s, Top’s Supermarkets and Medic Discount Drug. In 1993, they closed or sold all of the 10 Joey’s Candies stores and incorporated a new corporate identity. The business climate changed in the early 90’s and the company changed its focus. Over a 5-year period, the company opened 10 additional Joey’s Candies retail stores throughout Northeast Ohio. The retail store name, Joey’s Candies, was named after Tom & Judi’s son, Joe. The new owners moved the company 4 miles west to 10904 Brookpark Road into a 4,000 square foot building and started selling candy to the public. The major customers in this period were Fisher/Fazio/Costa, Leader Drug, Friendly Drug, Silverman’s and over 125 Convenient Food Mart Stores. The 1200 square foot two-story building was the home for the company until 1982 when the company was sold to Tom and Judi Scheiman. They sold the bags of candies to grocery, drug, and convenient stores through a network of 6 independent distributors. The two Broadview Heights residents started bagging bulk candy in the basement of Al’s home on Wallings Road before moving into a building at 4011 Brookpark Road. Bag A Sweet Candy Company was formed as a partnership between brother in laws Frank Stansny and Al Tokar.
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