Candy & Gum

Usher Candy Prepack Floorstand
HML Designs Inc.

Product: Brach's Candy
P-O-P companies: Riemer & Associates, Northfield, Ill. (designer); Great Northern Corp., Racine, Wis. (manufacturer)
Distribution: Mass merchants, drug and grocery stores
Construction: Corrugated cardboard
Comments: Creating in-store excitement, a play-house size gingerbread house can sit on top of cut cases, function as a centerpiece or hang from the ceiling. Promoting a baking theme with a free recipe and craft booklet, the display showcases those candies that are best suited for baking.

Product: Bulk candy
Number of displays: 9,000
Average unit cost: $400 (manufacturing cost)
Distribution: Grocery stores, chain convenience stores and drug stores
Introduction: February 1992
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Metal frame with plastic containers
Selling and storage of bulk candy is made attractive and easy with the use of a display that fits "everywhere and anywhere," an official says.

Products: Mini Sampler, Mini Cherries and novelty products
P-O-P company: Alliance Display Co., Winston-Salem, N.C.
Distribution: Mass merchants, chain drug and grocery stores
Construction: Corrugated cardboard

Type: three-bin, gravity-feed, corrugated Pick-A-Mix display
Manufacturing process: 200-pound B-flute bleached white; display printed with flexographic inks; header: four-color process litho-laminated riser with varnish; vinyl acetate window for candy chutes; holds 65 to 70 pounds of product
Introduction: August 1992
P-O-P company: Design Tech, Villa Park, Ill.
Comments: Innovative gravity design supports the freshness of the product.

Introduction: January 1989
P-O-P company: Niven Marketing Group
Background: A popular product in c-stores and other channels of trade, Bubble Tapes still had some problems winning shelf space. Amurol created a dispenser that could be placed on a counter and takes up a minimum of space.

Introduction: October 1989
P-O-P company: Gamon International Inc.
Background: Designed to hold six cases of 24 pieces each (a total of 144 packages), the Ouch! Bubble Gum display is designed to play up the product's package, which is intentionally made to resemble a bandage tin. It keeps with Amurol's goal of promoting the fun of the package.

Type: Eight-bowl wire display
Manufacturing process: Wire display with litho varnished header
Introduction: August 1992
P-O-P company: Athena Industries, Burr Ridge, Ill.
Comments: four-shelf wire rack with a 14.5-inch footprint to hold eight changemaker bowls.