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2013 Top 100 Candy Companies

Each year Candy Industry compiles a list of the Top 100 candy companies in the world. Below, you’ll not only find out where candy company ranks, but also their estimated net sales, how many employees they have and which products they make. Have feedback? Editor-in-chief Bernard Pacyniak would love to hear from you! Just shoot him note at pacyniakb@bnpmedia.com.

1.

1. Mars Inc., McLean, VA., USA.

Net Sales (in millions): $16,800
Number of plants: 51
Number of employess: 32,000
Chief officer title: Paul Michaels, pres. & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections
Energy Bars and candies

2.

2. Mondeléz International Inc., Deerfield, Ill.

Net Sales (in millions): $15,480
Number of plants: *223
Number of employess: *100,000
Chief officer title: Irene Rosenfeld, chairwoman & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Nuts/Seed Candies, Bars, Bark, Brittles & Marzipan
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections
Energy Bars and candies

3.

3. Barcel S.A., division of Grupo Bimbo, Mexico City, Mexico

Net Sales (in millions): $14,095
Number of plants: 3
Number of employess: 3,000
Chief officer title: Gabino Gomez, Barcel pres.

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum

4.

4. Nestlé SA, Vevey, Switzerland

Net Sales (in millions): $12,808
Number of plants: *443
Number of employess: *281,000
Chief officer title: Paul Bulcke, CEO

Products Manufactured:

5.

5. Hershey Foods Corp., Hershey, Pa., USA

Net Sales (in millions): $6,460
Number of plants: 8
Number of employess: 14,000
Chief officer title: John Bilbrey, pres. & CEO

Products Manufactured:

6.

6. Ferrero Group, Alba, Italy

Net Sales (in millions): $5,627
Number of plants: 18
Number of employess: 21,913
Chief officer title: Giovanni Ferrero, CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Hard Candies
Other Candies
Reduced-sugar confections

7.

7. Meiji Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Net Sales (in millions): $3,415
Number of plants: *29
Number of employess: *15,338
Chief officer title: Kazuo Kawamura, pres.

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Panned Confections
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Gum

8.

8. Perfetti Van Melle SpA, Lainate, Italy & Breda, Netherlands

Net Sales (in millions): $3,288
Number of plants: 31
Number of employess: 19,000
Chief officer title: Ubaldo Traldi, pres. & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections

9.

9. Haribo GmbH & Co., Bonn, Germany

Net Sales (in millions): $3,029
Number of plants: 15
Number of employess: 6,000 +
Chief officer title: Hans Reigel, managing director

Products Manufactured:

Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections

10.

10. Chocoladenfabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, Kilchberg, Switzerland

Net Sales (in millions): $2,791
Number of plants: 8
Number of employess: 7,779
Chief officer title: Ernst Tanner, chairman & CEO

Products Manufactured:

11.

11. August Storck KG, Berlin, Germany

Net Sales (in millions): $2,272
Number of plants: 5
Number of employess: 4,500
Chief officer title: Axel Oberwelland, CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Reduced-sugar confections

12.

12. Yildiz Holding, Istanbul, Turkey

Net Sales (in millions): $2,200
Number of plants: *54
Number of employess: *24,400
Chief officer title: Murat Ülker, chairman

Products Manufactured:

13.

13. Orion Corp., Seoul, Korea

Net Sales (in millions): $1,819
Number of plants: *12
Number of employess: *1,758
Chief officer title: Cheol Gon Dahm & Won Ki Kang, co-CEOs

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Energy Bars and candies

14.

14. Arcor, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Net Sales (in millions): $1,716
Number of plants: *40
Number of employess: *20,000
Chief officer title: Luis Pagani, pres. & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections
Energy Bars and candies

15.

15. General Mills Inc, Minneapolis, Minn.

Net Sales (in millions): $1,400
Number of plants: *50
Number of employess: *35,000
Chief officer title: Ken Powell, chairman & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Energy Bars and candies

16.

16. United Confectioners, Moscow, Russia

Net Sales (in millions): $1,333
Number of plants: 18
Number of employess: 17,000
Chief officer title: Sergey Nosenko, chairman

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies

17.

17. Bourbon Corp., Niigata, Japan

Net Sales (in millions): $1,290
Number of plants: *8
Number of employess: *5,000
Chief officer title: Yasushi Yoshida, chairman

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Hard Candies
Other Candies
Gum

18.

18. Roshen Confectionery, Kiev, Ukraine

Net Sales (in millions): $1,276
Number of plants: 7
Number of employess: 10,000
Chief officer title: Vyacheslav Moskalevskiy, managing director

Products Manufactured:

19.

19. Lotte Confectionery Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

Net Sales (in millions): $1,147
Number of plants: 9
Number of employess: 4,305
Chief officer title: Kim Sang- hoo, CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Panned Confections
Nuts/Seed Candies, Bars, Bark, Brittles & Marzipan
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections
Energy Bars and candies

20.

20. Morinaga & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Net Sales (in millions): $1,070
Number of plants: *8
Number of employess: *1,704
Chief officer title: Masayuki Yada, pres. & Gota Morinaga, chairman

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Energy Bars and candies

21.

21. Ferrara Candy Co., Chicago, Ill., USA

Net Sales (in millions): $1,000
Number of plants: 9
Number of employess: 800
Chief officer title: Salvatore Ferrara II, chairman & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Moulded Chocolate Figures & Shapes
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum
Reduced-sugar confections

22.

22. Ezaki Glico Co., Osaka, Japan

Net Sales (in millions): $968
Number of plants: *6
Number of employess: *1,059
Chief officer title: Katsuhisa Ezaki, pres. & CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Truffles, Pralines & Filled Chocolates
Panned Confections
Toffee & Caramel
Gum

23.

23. Crown Confectionery Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

Net Sales (in millions): $877
Number of plants: 5
Number of employess: 1,500
Chief officer title: Young Dal Yoon, CEO

Products Manufactured:

Chocolate Bars
Toffee & Caramel
Hard Candies
Gummies, Jellies, Licorice, Chews, Fruit Snacks & Jelly Beans
Other Candies
Gum

24.

24. Cloetta AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Net Sales (in millions): ***$840
Number of plants: 11
Number of employess: 2,600
Chief officer title: Bengt Baron, president & CEO

Products Manufactured:

25.

25. CRM Group

Net Sales (in millions): $590
Number of plants: 1
Number of employess: 1,200
Chief officer title: Celso Ricardo de Moraes

Products Manufactured:

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Editor’s Note: As always, the Global Top 100 is a “work in progress,” one that often involves making estimates when companies refuse to share specific data. If there are any oversights or incorrect estimates, please fill free to contact Candy Industry Editor Bernie Pacyniak at pacyniakb@bnpmedia.com so we can adjust the listing for next year.

*this includes production of non-confectionery items
**company wouldn't disclose
***merger w/Leaf (Sept. 1, 2011 to Aug. 31, 2012)

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