Clark Bar Purchased By PA Company, Production To Resume

PITTSBURGH, PA - The Clark bar has a new owner and soon will be manufactured in Pennsylvania again. The Altoona-based Boyer Candy Co. announced it has purchased the iconic candy bar that originated in Pittsburgh more than a century ago.

“We are thrilled to announce that the Clark Bar is coming back home to Pennsylvania,” the company stated in a tweet Thursday. “Thank you all for your support.”

Boyer, the manufacturer of Mallo Cups, has been owned since 1984 by Anthony Forgione, whom the company’s website describes as a New York entrepreneur and founder of Consolidated Brands. Consolidated holdings include four candy manufacturing companies.

Although the Boyer acquisition is great news for Clark bar fans, be prepared to suffer through Halloween without them. Forgione told the Altoona Mirror that production of the candy bars won’t resume for two to six months.

Boyer purchased the Clark bar from Union Confectionery Machinery, a New York based candy equipment supplier liquidating the assets of the candy bar's former owner, Necco. The owner of that company, Round Hill Investments LLC, announced in July it was selling the Necco brands and closing its Massachusetts plant.

Clark bars originated in Pittsburgh in 1886 along with the D.L. Clark Candy Company and remain popular here today. Consisting of a crispy peanut butter-base core covered with milk chocolate, Clark bars were manufactured for decades in a cavernous North Side building.

The Clark bars have had several different corporate owners over the years. They were manufactured by Necco since 1999.

Image via Necco.

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