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Candy House buyout gives Springfield store wholesale staple

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The president and CEO of Tamko Building Products Inc. penned a deal to buy Joplin-based Candy House Gourmet Chocolates, an acquisition that should benefit the Springfield store owners.

Bonnie Nolen, who owns Candy House Springfield with her husband Adam, said the acquisition means the local store can continue to buy wholesale from the factory in Joplin, rather than hand-make products.

“The best part about it is we are going to have a supplier for all of our chocolates,” she said. “If the factory closed, we would have had to make everything in house.

“I think they’re going to make everything even better.”

Tamko CEO David Humphreys and his wife Debra signed a letter of intent to buy the assets of Candy House Gourmet Chocolates from Terry and Pat Hicklin, Bonnie Nolen’s parents. The Nolens purchased the Springfield store from the Hicklins last July.

Humphreys said via email the sale is expected to close by the end of February.

“We expect to begin slowly, gaining an understanding of the manufacturing process and sales/marketing. That will take some time,” he said, declining to disclose the purchase price. “Afterwards, we hope to expand the reach of the product sales beyond the four-state area and to look to regional and maybe national sales opportunities.

“But again, we will not make any immediate changes in a proven business that has been very successful.”

The purchase does not include the company’s original store on Redings Mill Road in Joplin, Nolen said. It does comprise the wholesale factory and attached store at 510 S. Kentucky Ave.

In Springfield, the Nolens have been hand-making products the last month to prepare for Valentine’s Day, the store’s second-busiest holiday of the year.

While Nolen said Candy House Springfield no longer will need to use their in-house ovens to produce products for their retail store, they’ll continue to offer candy making classes and events.

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