For the last week I have been visiting the annual national convention of the Retail Confectioners International (RCI). While I am new to the group I have several long time friends who are well respected in the group and felt quite at home. I spent my days in seminars and my nights learning even more from seasoned veterans of the candy world. Imagine my surprise when I was asked to try this piece of candy; hmmm good! peanut butter, some sort of crunch and chocolate. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the crunch was potato chips crushed into the peanut butter!! Weird yes, but delicious too. The people of RCI are candy pioneers and they will try most anything to see if they can make something new.

Thursday and Friday, along with seminars on customer service and a mini candy boot camp I had the opportunity to visit the expo center and talk with many of the nations finest  candy industry suppliers. I also purchased some exciting new things to expand the ChiamMaya line, keep watching because the holiday season will have several surprises coming!