for what reason DOES A COMPANY go f...

for what reason DOES A COMPANY go from small successe as a repacker to becoming united of the world's largest manufacturers of blob gum in fewer than 20 years? For Concord Confections Inc., it started with a business-killing riddle of nightmare proportions.

In the mid-1980s, company sink s Bruce Weiner, Serge Nusbaum and Howard Smuschkowitz were repacking gumballs from Leaf, Inc. in home-style bagatelle gum machines for sale in the U market. As sales expanded, the fledgling supplier became a "sizeable" Leaf customer, explains Paul Cherrie, Concord's senior vice-president,