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Export Fun Facts |
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Just Born, Inc. currently offers its candies to consumers in over 50 countries! |
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Canada is Just Born, Inc.’s largest International market, offering bi-lingual versions of MIKE AND IKE®, HOT TAMALES®, MARSHMALLOW PEEPS®, and PEANUT CHEWS® candies throughout the country. |
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Just Born, Inc. manufactures products with international specific packaging for countries within Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and soon to be Europe, in addition to Canada. |
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The PEANUT CHEWS® brand was launched globally in April 2005, and is rapidly becoming a favorite candy in several countries around the world. |
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MARSHMALLOW PEEPS® Fun Facts |
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Due to demand, Just Born now produces over 1.2 billion MARSHMALLOW PEEPS® a year covering all of its holiday seasons. That’s enough PEEPS® to circle the earth twice. |
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It would take approximately 9,000 vertical PEEPS® to equal the height of the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
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It would take approximately 8,000 vertical PEEPS® to equal the height of the tallest building in North America, Sears Tower in Chicago. |
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In 1953, it took 27 hours to create one MARSHMALLOW PEEP®. Today, it takes six minutes. |
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As many as 4.2 million MARSHMALLOW PEEPS®, Bunnies, and other shapes are made each day at Just Born's Bethlehem, Pennsylvania factory. |
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People like to do curious things with PEEPS®- eat them stale, freeze them, and use them as a pizza topping. |
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PEEPS® are always in season! Just Born manufactures seasonal PEEPS® shapes for Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, & Christmas. |
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Celebrity PEEPS® fans include Diane Sawyer, Emeril Lagasse, and Ellen DeGeneres. |
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MIKE AND IKE® Fun Facts |
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MIKE AND IKE® Brand Original Fruits was introduced in 1940. |
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Theories about the origin of the MIKE AND IKE® brand name include a company-wide contest, a vaudeville song titled “Mike and Ike” and the “IKE” Eisenhower era. |
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Just Born produces over 4.5 billion pieces of MIKE AND IKE® brand candies each year. As many as 44 tons of MIKE AND IKE® brand candies are made each day. If you lined up each piece end-to-end, they would reach around the earth 2.5 times! |
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It takes three to four days to create a box of MIKE AND IKE® brand candies. |
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Each chewy candy has only 8 calories and 0 grams of fat. |
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MIKE AND IKE® brand candies are Kosher. |
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MIKE AND IKE® candies have appeared in the film “Simone” with Al Pacino and in an episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Celebrity MIKE AND IKE® fans include Jimmy Fallon, Will Smith, and Steven Spielberg. |
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HOT TAMALES® Fun Facts |
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Introduced in 1950; boasts more than 50 years of strong brand loyalty. |
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SUPER HOT HOT TAMALES® were introduced in 1993. |
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Just Born produces more than 22 million pounds of HOT TAMALES® each year to meet the huge consumer demand for this popular candy. |
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ZOURS® Fun Facts |
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Introduced in 1999. |
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Characters are modeled after the actual candy pieces. |
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Consumers frequently inquire about the names of the ZOURS® figures. |
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ZOURS® characters had no names until the relaunch of the Web site in the spring of 2002. |
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PEANUT CHEWS® Fun Facts |
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PEANUT CHEWS® were first sold in and around Philadelphia. The brand’s loyal following was built by word-of-mouth and its fan base spread to New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. |
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PEANUT CHEWS® were developed during World War I and used by the U.S. Military as a ration bar. The high energy, high protein recipe and unique taste made it popular with the troops. |
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In the 1930’s, the PEANUT CHEWS® bar size was reduced to bite-size pieces, in order to make consumption easier. |
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Also in the 1930’s, PEANUT CHEWS® began selling the bite-size pieces in movie theaters. |
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44,000 pounds of fresh, whole peanuts are delivered weekly to the PEANUT CHEWS® facility, which is still in Philadelphia. 11,000 pounds of those peanuts are used each day. |
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Two million PEANUT CHEWS® candy pieces are produced each day. They would reach 40 miles if placed end to end. |
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PEANUT CHEWS® is the Official Candy for the Dew Action Sports Tour® (www.dewactionsportstour.com) |
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Celebrity PEANUT CHEWS® fans include Al Roker, Bruce Willis, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Bon Jovi . |
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Miscellaneous Data |
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We currently have 530 associates. |
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Our facility is 450-500 thousand square feet. |
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We use 42 million pounds of sugar per year. |
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We manufacture 200 thousand pounds of jelly beans per day. |
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All of Just Born's jelly candies (MIKE AND IKE®, HOT TAMALES®, ZOURS®, Teenee Beanee® Gourmet Jelly Beans, and Just Born Jelly Beans) are certified kosher by the Orthodox Union. MARSHMALLOW PEEPS®, however are not Kosher.
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