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Jolly Rancher Candy
Jolly Rancher is known best for their flavorful classic candy, whether you like sweet or sour jolly rancher brand candy will not let you down. Available in bite size rocks, jolly rancher hard twists, jolly rancher sticks or jolly rancher suckers. Jolly ranchers are a classic candy favorite. The original flavors of jolly rancher was apple, strawbery, orange, grape. fire and cherry. They have dropped some flavors and added blue raspberry and pink lemonade

One of the best things with jolly ranchers is not only the great taste, but they are long lasting and keeps their flavor.

Jolly Rancher Facts:

Did you know that when the JOLLY RANCHER Company was founded back in 1949, they also made ice cream and chocolate as well as hard candy kisses. As the popularity of hard fruit flavored twists grew, they decided to concentrate on developing their "Famous for Flavor" line and discontinue the ice cream and chocolates. The rest is history!



Jolly Rancher History:

The Jolly Rancher Candy Company was founded in Golden, Colorado, by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen in 1949. They called the company Jolly Rancher to suggest a hospitable, western company. The company originally made ice cream, chocolate and hard candy. As hard candy sales grew, however, they began to concentrate on developing their "Famous for Flavor" line of hard candies. In 1966, the Harmsens sold Jolly Rancher to Beatrice Foods, but the family continued to be involved in the day-to-day operation of the business. Leaf purchased Jolly Rancher in 1983. Hershey Foods Corporation acquired the Leaf North American confectionery operations from Huhtamaki Oy of Helsinki, Finland in 1996.

Although Jolly Rancher Candy has been around since the mid 1900 hundreds they are still one of America's favorite hard candies. They are known best for their bold flavors that last. Through out the years they have made many changes; coming out with new candies and flavors. Now not only to these sweet treat appeal to the adults, but also to the kids.

Here is a time line of the changes:

1949 - Jolly Rancher Candy Company founded.

1966 - Jolly Rancher sold to Beatrice Foods.

1983 - Leaf acquires Jolly Rancher.

1996 - Hershey acquires Leaf North America including JOLLY RANCHER candy brands.

1997 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER Sugar Free Hard Candy.

1997 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER Jelly Beans.

1999 - JOLLY RANCHER Jelly Beans formula was improved to intensify fruit flavor.

1999 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER Lollipops.

2001 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER Fruit Chew Lollipops.

2001 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER Fruit Chews Candy.

2002 - Blue Raspberry is added to the JOLLY RANCHER Hard Candy flavor assortment.

2003 - Hershey introduces convenient Blister Pack for on-the-go JOLLY RANCHER Hard Candy enjoyment.

2004 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER SCREAMING SOURS Candies.

2004 - Bold Fruit Smoothie and Fruit 'n' Sour flavors of hard candy are added in a peg bag.

2004 - Hershey introduces Creepy Fruity shaped lollipops for Halloween.

2004 - Hershey introduces JOLLY RANCHER ROCKS Hard Candies, bite-size candies with bold JOLLY RANCHER flavor.

2005 - Hershey introduces new Bold Fruit Smoothie JOLLY RANCHER Jelly Beans.

2006 - Hershey introduces new JOLLY RANCHER Sour Blasts candy and JOLLY RANCHER Double Blasts candy.