Necco Wafers will live on.Round Hill Investments LLC, a firm run by the billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos with family members, is set to pick up the 171-year-old New England Confectionery Company ...

The future of Sky Bars and Sweethearts is in limbo after the NECCO factory closed this week. The NECCO plant in Revere, Massachusetts, was shut suddenly Tuesday by its owner, Round Hill ...

TODAY NOT MUCH SEEMS TO BE GOING ON INSIDE. MORE THAN 230 WORKERS ARE NOW OUT OF A JOB AFTER IT WAS ANNOUNCED NECCO IS SHUTTING DOWN OPERATIONS AT IT’S REVERE PLANT. THE COMPANY WAS RECENTLY ...

Necco wafers have been around since before the Civil War—and plenty of detractors would argue they taste like it, too. The flavors have been described as “tropical drywall,” “plaster ...

The New England Confectionary Company—NECCO—will have sold 2.5 billion Sweethearts Conversation Hearts candies in the six weeks leading up to and including Valentine’s Day. That’s a lot of ...

Necco Wafers are about to make a sweet comeback after a two-year absence. The beloved candy’s disappearance came after the factory in Revere, Massachusetts that made Necco Wafers closed abruptly ...

What really has people panic buying these days is the potential closure of the New England Confectionery Co. — which could mean the loss of the iconic Necco Wafer. Sales of the beloved ...

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 ...

WEBVTT WORKERS GOT FIRST DIBS, DAVID? REPORTER: GOOD AFTERNOON. NEARLY 200 WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS WHEN NECCO SHUT DOWN LATE LAST MONTH. TODAY NEARLY ALL OF THEM SHOWED UP AT THIS JOB THERE.

Necco, the maker of divisive, chalky treats, has bitten the dust and closed its factory on Tuesday. This week, devoted fans of all of the company's sweets are scrambling to find their favorite ...

You would think that after a long and drawn-out dalliance on the brink of extinction, attitudes about the incorrectly maligned NECCO wafer would shift. There’s nothing like the possibility of ...