Things You Didn't Know
Russell Stover is credited with inventing the Eskimo Pie in 1921.
Russell Stover Candies is the leading hand-dipper of premium chocolates in the United States. The company hand dips more than 25 million pieces each year.
All Russell Stover candies are made in America. The family-owned company operates five candy factories in four states and employs more than 4,500 people.
Russell Stover candies were judged America’s best-tasting by a distinguished panel of leading chefs from the American Culinary Institute.
For its first 20 years, Russell Stover Candies was known as Mrs. Stover’s Bungalow Candies.
Russell Stover Candies was awarded the prestigious Kettle Award, the confectionery industry’s Oscar, in both 1947 and 1994.
It was a box of Russell Stover chocolates that led Forrest Gump to recall, “My mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’”
