The Economy

Production Pulse: Halloween Candy, the Untold Story

Oct. 31, 2024

How important is candy on Halloween? How are commodity prices impacting the kinds of sugar rotting the teeth of America's children?

Robert Schoenberger

It's Halloween, the best holiday of the year because it's the only event dedicated to celebrating candy. Most sane people love the stuff, but how important is it? We talk a lot in the manufacturing world about the importance of Christmas for retail's impact on the economy, but what about All Hallow's Eve?

Discussing all things chocolate and sugar are editors from IndustryWeek's parent company Endeavor Business Media.

Linda "Not-Handing-Out-Candy-This-Year" Becker is editor-in-chief of Automatic Merchandizer and Vending Market Watch, titles that send her to vending machine and convenience store trade shows every year, candy-centric events at which companies share what's coming up in the world of sugar
Andy "Everything-Good-Is-From-Chicago" Hanacek, senior editor of Food Processing, a title that covers food manufacturers
Robert "More-Peanut-Butter-and-Chocolate-Please" Schoenberger, editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek who does consider peanut M&Ms to be a salad

About the Author

Robert Schoenberger

Editor-in-Chief

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robert-schoenberger-4326b810

Bio: Robert Schoenberger has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined IndustryWeek in late 2021.