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Sweethearts Won’t be on Store Shelves this Valentine’s Day

Sweethearts Won’t be on Store Shelves this Valentine’s Day

On no!

Since 1901, Sweetheart candies have filled the shelves and our bellies every Valentine’s Day, but not this year.

“We look forward to announcing the Sweethearts relaunch for the 2020 Valentine season,” Spangler Chairman and CEO Kirk Vashaw said in a September 2018 company press release.

Spangler acquired both Sweethearts and NECCO Wafers, and the equipment that makes them, after New England Confectionary Company (NECCO) declared bankruptcy and closed their Massachusetts factory in July of last year.

Read more via pix11.com.

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