Tootsie Roll Industries News

Highly measurable progress in reducing medical costs and encouraging employee health through prevention-based healthcare has led 82 firms to be named the "Healthiest Companies in America" : for 2008.

Last month was a good time for anyone with a sweet tooth to visit Chicago. Over 450 confectionary and snack companies from 69 countries around the world came to our city to show their latest products.

Veteran topical talk show host Jerry Agar joins the WGN Radio team. Jerry has been a listener favorite in markets including Kansas City, New York and here in Chicago.

Veteran topical talk show host Jerry Agar joins the WGN Radio team. Jerry has been a listener favorite in markets including Kansas City, New York and here in Chicago.

"Buy me some peanuts and a Tootsie Roll" just didn't work. Instead, when Jack Norworth wrote the lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, he called out Cracker Jack.

Karen Mills was confirmed April 2, 2009. Photo courtesy U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Unlike many of President Barack Obama's controversial cabinet picks, the new leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration last week enjoyed unanimous Senate approval, with nary a peep of protest from a single legislator.

President Barack Obama's choice to head the Small Business Administration told lawmakers Wednesday that if she is confirmed, she would make it a priority to get money flowing again through the agency's loan programs.

Readers of a certain age probably remember the Tootsie Roll commercials that famously asked how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

If confirmed, Mills will take over an agency that has suffered from neglect during the past eight years.

Tootsie Roll swung and missed in its opposition to registration of the mark MISTER FLUFFY for candy.

Chicago candy maker to open distribution center in Humboldt Industrial Park. HAZLE TWP.

Tootsie Rolls are coming to Greater Hazleton, and not just to the local candy store.

They're known as "America's favorite candy company," and they're coming to Greater Hazleton.

I'm on vacation this week - or I'm supposed to be! The blog world never sleeps, I guess, nor does learning while away.

The nominee to head the U.S. Small Business Administration, Karen Gordon Mills, has a Chicago connection via the venerable candymaker Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.

HAZLE TWP. Yet another company could be added to the growing cluster of food and beverage makers located in the Humboldt Industrial Park.