Twizzlers are a popular brand of fruit-flavored candy in the U.S. and Canada (often called a Licorice Candy). Twizzlers is the product of Y&S Candies, Inc., of lancaster pennsylvania, now a subsidiary of The Hershey Co.
Since 1999, Twizzlers have been manufactured in Memphis, Tennessee, in a Y&S plant that also makes chewing gum and other candies. From 1970 through 1999, it was previously manufactured at a plant in Farmington, New Mexico, but relocated the operation to Memphis because of rising transportation costs. Y&S Candies, the manufactures of TWIZZLERS candy, is one of the oldest confectionery firms in the United States. The company was established in 1845 as Young and Smylie, and adopted Y&S as its trademark in 1870. National Licorice Company was created in 1902 through the merger of three small firms: Young & Smylie, S.V. & F.P. Schudder and H.W. Petherbridge. The company changed its name to Y&S candies Inc. in 1968 and was acquired by Hershey Foods in 1977.
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