Wholesale Mexican Hard Candy Sticks | Gilliam & Ferrara
Gilliam and Ferrara Candy Co. make the old-fashioned candy sticks on this page in watermelon and root beer and cotton candy. There’s a bag of assorted jawbreakers in with them. Eight SKUs in all. Cases run $26.78 to $30.83, and you can buy straight from the page or open a wholesale account if you’d like account pricing.
Old-Fashioned Candy Sticks with Real Brand Heritage
Candy sticks go way back in American candy and in the Mexican-influenced stuff too. These look the part. GILLIAM and FERRARA CANDY CO. are the two names behind them. The case prices only spread from $26.78 to $30.83, which makes sense to us since a stick is pretty much the same format from one flavor to the next. Nothing trendy here. A Root-beer stick tastes about how you’d guess and so does Cherry Cola. Somebody standing at your counter can grab one without asking a single question about it (we’d be surprised if anyone ever needed a root beer stick explained to them).
It’s a short page with just eight items on it. You can look over every stick here in one sitting, pick what you want and be done before your coffee gets cold.
What’s in the Candy Stick Lineup
On the fruit and soda end you’ve got Watermelon and Root-beer, then Cherry Cola and Cotton Candy Hard Candy Sticks. The other end is sweeter and heavier. Rum & Butter sits over there with Peaches & Cream, and Butterscotch Hard Candy Sticks makes it three. We’d guess the butterscotch-and-rum corner gets the grown-ups and the watermelon gets the kids. Both halves come from the same brand family, so there’s no second supplier to chase.
Then there’s Assorted Jawbreakers, which isn’t a stick at all. It’s that dense round candy that takes forever to get through. We’d still shelve the jawbreakers right beside the sticks, because whoever reaches for a nostalgic stick is usually the same person who’d pick up a jawbreaker, even if you eat the two in completely different ways. With all eight on one shelf it already looks like a little retro corner, and honestly we don’t think it needs anything pulled in from somewhere else.
A Focused Assortment Built for Easy Reordering
Reordering gets pretty easy once you know which flavors are moving, since there are only eight and each one’s clearly its own thing. Mostly you can tell what’s selling just by glancing at the shelf. No inventory software for that. If the Peaches & Cream is sitting there untouched you’ll notice, because it isn’t buried under a pile of other sticks that all look alike. We’d run through all eight before fair season or a holiday reset and pick the couple that earned a bigger case order that time around. Takes a few minutes.
Who Buys Wholesale Mexican Hard Candy
A lot of these end up in general stores and candy shops, in nostalgic displays or self-serve bins, usually near whatever old-fashioned candy is already out. Gift shops too. Concession stands and fair vendors like the sticks since they keep well and sell one at a time. At a convenience store we’d just set a couple of the well-known ones by the register, Watermelon or Cotton Candy maybe. Now and then an event planner grabs the assorted flavors as favors for a retro party.
If your shelf is mostly modern hard candy, the GILLIAM and FERRARA CANDY CO. sticks fill a gap next to it nicely. Somebody who came in wanting a classic flavor stick finally has something to stop for there. And the stick shape, with those retro flavor names on it, looks different enough from the usual wrapped candy that people who’d normally walk right past the aisle tend to slow down and look, which we think is half the reason to carry them.
How to Order Wholesale Mexican Hard Candy
You don’t have to hit a minimum. The candy sticks and jawbreakers come by the case, and one case at listed prices is a fine way to start. Checkout’s by secure card. Maybe you only want two or three flavors from GILLIAM and FERRARA CANDY CO. at first, or maybe you want all eight on day one. Either’s fine by us. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing, and if you’re buying larger volumes just ask for a quote.
We’d probably open with Watermelon and Root-beer since most people know those. Set the Assorted Jawbreakers next to them. Give it a little while. Once you’ve seen how they go, bring in the other flavors. Eight SKUs from both brands still fits in one modest candy stick section, and it isn’t the sort of category that keeps getting bigger every time you reorder.
Frequently Asked Questions
What flavors of Mexican hard candy sticks are available?
Watermelon and Root-beer sticks are on the fruit and soda side, along with Cherry Cola and Cotton Candy. Rum & Butter and Peaches & Cream are richer. So is Butterscotch Hard Candy Sticks. Assorted Jawbreakers make the eighth item.
Which brands supply this hard candy stick catalog?
They come from GILLIAM and FERRARA CANDY CO., both known for old-fashioned hard candy sticks and jawbreakers. Cases go from $26.78 up to $30.83, depending on the item.
Is there a minimum order for wholesale candy sticks?
No, there’s no minimum. It’s all sold by the case, so you can order just one at listed prices with card checkout. Approved wholesale accounts see account pricing, and we quote larger volumes on request.
How do I place a wholesale order for these candy sticks?
Right here online. Pick your flavors and how many cases you want from GILLIAM or FERRARA CANDY CO., then pay at listed prices through secure card checkout. If you’d rather have account pricing, open a wholesale account.