Achievements
Russell Stover Candies may seem quiet and unassuming, but it has grown into the nation’s largest manufacturer of boxed chocolate. Its three brands — Russell Stover, Whitman’s, and Pangburn’s — account for more than 60 percent of all boxed chocolate sales in the United States. Russell Stover Candies is the third-largest U.S. chocolate manufacturer behind Hershey and M&M Mars.
Russell Stover candies are sold in 60 company-owned retail stores and through 70,000 wholesale accounts in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia. The company manufactures nearly 100 million pounds of chocolate annually. More than 4,500 Russell Stover employees continue to make candies with the same small-batch techniques and original recipes used by the Stovers more than 80 years ago. Today, most candy making processes are still accomplished by hand. This painstaking dedication to quality has allowed Russell Stover Candies to become America’s number-one seller of boxed chocolate.
