Sweets & Snacks Expo Announces Most Innovative New Product Winners

The Sweets & Snacks Expo unveiled this year's winners of the coveted Most Innovative New Product Awards. These highly competitive awards recognize the most innovative candy and snack products and companies for their achievements during the past year: 

Chocolate: The Hershey Company – Reese’s Big Cup with Pretzels

Non-Chocolate: Mederer U.S.A., Inc. – efrutti Bakery Shoppe Bag

Gum & Mints: Perfetti Van Melle USA, Inc. – Mentos Gum Paperboard Bottle

Salty Snacks: Wonderful Pistachios – Wonderful Pistachios No Shells Sea Salt & Vinegar

Sweet Snacks: TruFru LLC – Nature’s Strawberries Hyper-Chilled Frozen Fresh in White Chocolate & Milk Chocolate

Meat Snacks: Pure Jerky Co – Tripi’s Sweet Spicy Original

Savory Snacks: Indiana Import LLC – Torti Max

Novelty/Licensed – Candy & Snacks: Pez Candy, Inc. – Harry Potter Back Pack Clips with Mystery Flavor PEZ Candy

Seasonal – Candy & Snacks: Ferrara Candy Company – Nerds Candy Corn

Gourmet/Premium – Candy: TruFru LLC – Nature’s Pineapple Pina Colada Hyper-Chilled Fresh and Immersed in White Chocolate and Coconut

Gourmet/Premium – Snacks: Crack Corn – The Original Ultra-Premium Puff Corn

Small Business Innovator: BranchOut – Banana Bites

Best in Show: Ferrara Candy Company – Nerds Gummy Clusters                                 

The 2021 Sweets & Snacks Expo by the numbers:

Thousands of attendees

450+ exhibitors

2,890+ retail attendees

1,750+ banners across all classes of trade 

More than 3 acres of candy and snack innovation

$6.3 million economic impact on the City of Indianapolis

Top trends for candy and snacks in 2021:

Smaller pack sizes

Tropical flavors

Mix and match

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