A Florida woman really loves Necco Wafers, the colorful candies made by a Massachusetts company that is currently as at risk of shutting down. The Boston Globe reports 23-year-old Katie Samuels ...

NECCO wafers are a polarizing candy. Some online haters have compared the brittle sugar disks to chalk, or antacid tablets. But now, the company that makes them could soon close shop — and that's ...

After a two-year hiatus following the closure of the New England Confectionary Company, or Necco, we have some good news to report about the brand’s signature candy: Necco Wafers are officially ...

REVERE, Mass. — There's a chance the country's oldest operating candy company - run out of Revere - may be shutting down. And that's causing people to panic-buy one of its most popular candies: the ...

Thin, chalky, and brittle, Necco Wafers are not a treat likely to tempt today's child, whose palette is more attuned to the bustling bursting of fizzy Pop Rocks and the crunch and chew of a Nerds ...

BOSTON (AP) – The 171-year-old candy maker known for its chalky Necco Wafers and those little inscribed hearts that are everywhere on Valentine’s Day is up for grabs in bankruptcy court. A judge is ...

Necco Wafers, a staple of the American sweet tooth for 171 years, apparently aren’t going the way of Bonkers Fruit Chews, Sputnik Gumballs or Yoo-Hoo chocolate bars anytime soon. Bryan, Ohio-based ...

Sometimes old-fashioned candies are taken for granted, which was exactly the case in 2018 when Necco CEO Michael McGee announced that the company could shut down within months. When faced with the ...

Yes, even the new leader of millions of faithful Catholics around the world once used an iconic Massachusetts candy to play church when he was a child. John Prevost is the brother of Pope Leo XIV, who ...

Rumors of the impending demise of NECCO have sparked a renewed interest in the company's products — especially its famous, eponymous, chalky... NECCO-Mania: Fans Stock Up On Chalky Wafers In Case ...