Palmer employs employees and makes items, which now include Halloween products. Trick or Treat! Production Line 5 was added that spanned over a mile long with approximately different molds.
Production Line 8, which was the most unique molding line in the United States at the time, was put into production. The molding line can decorate up to six colors, fill candy and mold crisp all at the same time. Completed the installation of the new Coating Manufacturing Department. The innovative system enabled R. Palmer to produce their own chocolate coating and produced 10 million pounds the first year. Palmer grows to employ people and makes different items.
An additional 30, square feet is added to the Exeter Distribution Center. Two more chocolate storage tanks were installed, increasing total liquid chocolate storage to almost 1 million pounds! New Production Line 10 was installed. Added new Mesh Bagging Machines for bagging capabilities so R.
Palmer can bundle its sweet treats into 3. Palmer teams with NASCAR, along with some of the top Cup drivers, to introduce chocolate race cars to be exact replicas of their race cars. Built another 29, square foot cooler addition in Exeter Distribution Center, which now totals , square feet, equivalent to 10 football fields, all under one roof. Palmer introduce a candy bar named Dale Jr. Palmer acquires Merlin Candies of New Orleans and expands the distribution of Merlin bunnies nationwide.
Palmer introduces the one pound Mega Coin. With a new take on an old favorite, R. Today, R. Palmer Company employs close to dedicated employees and more than unique products are offered — making R. In , R. Palmer Company is celebrating its 70th anniversary of crafting fun, seasonal chocolate novelties! Ah chocolate mmmm.
Love your chocolate and the Selfie Bunny is adorable. Now I purchase your products for my son. Fun and delicious candy for all holidays. We love chocolate selfie bunny. Amazing candy for a great price! Before the pump was installed, the chocolate was hand broken, melted down, and transported via buckets to the upper floors. In Palmer Candy celebrated 75 years of making its Bing candy bars with a public celebration in Sioux City.
Employees made the colossal candy bar's outer coating with a three-foot-deep bowl. The two cherry cream centers were molded with a basketball-sized stainless steel mold. The huge treat was later divided amongst three local charitable organizations: Boys and Girls Family Services, Girls Inc. According to Marty Palmer, the celebration sparked new product ideas among the company's upper management.
Marty Palmer told the Omaha World-Herald that when the original Bing Bar was created in , peanut butter wasn't as popular as it had become in the late s. The observation resulted in the Peanut Butter Bing. A broad selection of employees taste-tested the new candy bar through its development. It's actually a peanut butter creme. It includes a lot of peanut butter. It also has peanut flour, and even a little flavoring. Even with increased weekend shifts, Palmer Candy couldn't keep up with new orders.
Marty Palmer hoped that the early success was a signifier that the Peanut Butter Bing would be distributed nationally. We're really hoping this might be what takes the Twin Bing to a much larger area.
The new candy bar, shipped in a new gold wrapper, featured crisped rice instead of chopped nuts. The caramel added to the center scored higher with the Palmer Candy taste testers than the peanut center of the Peanut Butter Bing. In the various Bing bars still hadn't expanded far outside of Palmer Candy's original distribution footprint.
Undaunted, Marty Palmer beefed up his company's resources and in consolidated the company into a colossal ,square-foot warehouse. Besides adding more space, the warehouse solved a logistical problem of having the company's supplies stored in five smaller warehouses throughout Sioux City.
The new warehouse became the new center for Palmer Candy storage and production. The space allowed Palmer Candy to increase its rebagging and bulk candy production for super markets, food clubs, and other retailers.
Palmer Candy was also making niche candies like holiday divinity and fudge peanut brittle. The company was flexible enough to make candy exactly to a customer's specifications, unlike larger candy makers. In a Minnesota-based competitor, Shair Candy, which was also a family-run business, closed. Palmer Candy was able to collect some of Shair Candy's rebagging customers. Shair Candy's fate reflected a growing trend in the candy industry.
In the s there were about family-run candy makers in America. In only about 30 remained. Early in the new millennium Palmer Candy was still growing and employed about full-time people.
The seasonal candy business increased so much during the fall, with Halloween being the largest candy-consuming holiday, Palmer Candy hired an extra part-time employees and operated its candy factory for 24 hours a day. After years of successful candy making, Palmer Candy and its fifth-generation president were content with their candy-making role in America. In the company operated four successful ventures: the bulk sales of candies to grocery and specialty stores, custom candy manufacturing, rebagging other company's candies, and the production of Bing candy bars.
The latter didn't have a national presence, but the factory provided jobs for hundreds of Sioux City residents. Amongst self-proclaimed candy fanatics, the Twin Bing had accumulated somewhat of a cult following.
Almond believed that the Twin Bing was one of the last great regional candy bars and something to be cherished. We don't try to go head to head against the same products that might be produced by someone who is huge," Palmer continued. We provide a selection and variety and level of service that nobody else can match.
So, we're growing a lot every year. Alpine Confections, Inc. From a relatively small beginning in wholesale groceries, the company became the largest confectioner in Sioux City and one of the largest in Iowa.
Just as important, however, have been the actions of five generations of the Palmer family since their arrival in Sioux City in the late nineteenth century.
Joseph, Michigan. He hoped to reap the fortune of the quickly populating American West. Upon his arrival he purchased the wholesale grocery business of H. Booge, who was concentrating on plans of opening a large meatpacking plant in Sioux City. These early years were good for Palmer, who later sold this business to Tolerton and Warfield Wholesale Grocers in Palmer then entered into business with Riley J.
Their partnership in the dry goods business was brief. Though Edward Cook Palmer remained an important businessman in Sioux City, his efforts in civic boosterism made him one of the most important figures in the city. He was the builder and chief owner of the Sioux City and Nebraska Pontoon Bridge, on the board of several banks, and helped form many real estate developments across Sioux City. By , however, his sons William B. Palmer and Charles E. Palmer had made names of their own when the formed the Palmer Company.
At first the Palmer Company concentrated its efforts on wholesale fruit, but by candy making began to turn the business in a new direction. Business was booming for the Palmer Company. By the late s it was clear to the Palmer Company that more space was needed to keep up with demand and a new four-story facility was built at Douglas Street in The building was a modern and efficient facility in , but by even more space was needed to keep up with the thriving business.
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