Annie B's Candy
The most irresistible candy ever made!
Annie B’s candy company is located in the small farming community of Kellogg, Minnesota, which is in the beautiful Mississippi River Valley approximately ninety miles Southeast of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/ St. Paul. We have been manufacturing this all-natural caramel for nearly 30 years using the same quality ingredients and solid old copper kettles.
The picture attached is of our Annie B’s next generation, our nine grandchildren with grandma Carol and I. Four belonging to Annie and husband Kirk, and five to Jennifer and husband Tom, and what a blessing every one of them are to us. The Bouquet / Annie B’s story goes back nearly 34 years and is worth sharing from it’s simple beginnings. We actually started out of our home in 1978 as a small wood manufacturer by the name of Country Bouquet. With our young daughters Ann and Jennifer (JC), a few neighbors, and lots of great ideas we began crafting in our garage things like heart shapes peg racks, pine shelves, roosters, pigs, and gingerbread men made of wood with wood burned faces and ribbon bows that were all really hot, hot, hot. As more people became interested in our items I spent more and more time away from my home building business and Carol and I spent more and more time in the garage making product. We eventually outgrew our garage and moved six miles south of Wabasha (home of Grumpy Old Men & the National Eagle Center for the U. S.) to Kellogg, population under 500 people, and the perfect atmosphere for our growing gift business.
In the mid 1980’s we opened five retail factory outlet stores, learned the impulse love affair with caramel products at the counter and started making our own brand named after our oldest daughter Annie. All aspects of our business grew over the next fifteen years and as we continued to do candy and wood manufacturing, we also began doing importing and adding to our facilities, eventually to over 50,000 square feet.
Annie B’s became our complete focus in 2008 when our gift division was bought by Wild Wings, a Cabela owned company we were designing and selling to. With candy our sole focus now we have rapidly expanded product, flavors, and market distribution to many new customer bases and have brought all sales and customer service responsibilities in-house.
Our goal is that our customers enjoy Annie B’s as much as we enjoy making it for them.
Tom & Carol Bouquet
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