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Top 25 Candy wholesalers and distributors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 390 candy wholesalers and distributors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,076 professional contacts across them, including 968 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers candy wholesalers and distributors headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest candy wholesalers and distributors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 945 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With over 50 years of experience Vistar, a division of Performance Foods Group, is America's premier and largest candy, snack, and beverage distributor; offering the widest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We believe candy is so much more than candy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nassau Candy is one of North America's largest and most respected wholesale candy distributors, fine food suppliers, and private label manufacturers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Albanese is a confectionery manufacturer, retailer, and distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In 2001, Dylan Lauren pioneered the world’s largest confectionery emporium and lifestyle brand, Dylan’s Candy Bar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We love life’s little indulgences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1921, Wolfgang Confectioners has been driven by a simple yet powerful mission: Make Candy Bless Lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) is the oldest multi-line candy company in the United States, continually operating since its inception in 1847.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morinaga America, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atkinson Candy Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As one of the largest wholesalers in North America, Redstone Foods has been delivering a sweet experience to its customers since 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded almost 30 years ago Original Gourmet Food Company has been innovating the Candy and Snack industry with their new and exciting baked goods and confections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Merchants Grocery Company, Inc.(MGC) was founded in 1917 to provide the best service and products to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The first Fuzziwig's Candy Factory opened in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Candy Club Makes Happy Happen - through our premium candies - one bite at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lyons is a wholesale distributor of candy, tobacco, groceries, foodservice, health and beauty care items, automotive supplies, general merchandise, janitorial supplies, and paper…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hammond's Candies in Denver, CO has been handcrafting the finest every day and holiday confections for 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Munson's Chocolates is Connecticut's largest chocolate retail manufacturer and proudly makes fresh chocolate confections in it's Factory in Bolton CT since 1946.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Peterson's Nuts - King Nut Company, Gourmet Nuts, Delectable Chocolate, Candy, Gift Basket and Snacks of Cleveland, Ohio!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CK Products is a wholesale distributor and manufacturer for the cake decorating, candy making, wedding cake, and kitchen supply industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imaginings 3, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Long Grove Confectionery Company started as a retail business in the quaint village of Long Grove, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arway–Long Grove Confections is a family-owned, Chicagoland-based business that has more than 70 years of history as a manufacturer of high quality bulk and specialty gourmet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ruckers Candy is a Wholesale company located in P.O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: candy wholesalers and distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names candy wholesalers and distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of candy wholesalers and distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name candy wholesalers and distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Candy wholesalers and distributors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 390 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among candy wholesalers and distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “candy wholesalers and distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names candy wholesalers and distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among candy wholesalers and distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 968 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names candy wholesalers and distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many candy wholesalers and distributors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 390 candy wholesalers and distributors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Vistar, headquartered in Englewood, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most candy wholesalers and distributors?
New York leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (5) and Los Angeles (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 968 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 390 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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