Production Pulse: Halloween Candy, the Untold Story

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