Although the world economy has fee...

Although the world economy has feeled individual hard candy categories were able to thrive and deliver comfort to many consumer

"Usually when the economy is dead candy sales improve because it's a lower priced item," says senior national accounts manager of Clearwater, Fla., Dayhoff Inc., Calvin Kessler "People ne a treat of a certain sort and they are not going to take an expensive vacation," he says. Kessler says their sales were up roughly 16% this past quarter.

Dayhoff's principally recent growth has been in the category of popular fruit cream hard candies -- strawberry and cream, peaches and cream,