The original owner of the very well known Willy Wonka Candy Company is the Nestle Company. It is also been reported to work as an authorized dealer of licensed products from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is run by Roald Dahl. They have also come up with two different ad films those talks about the packaging and the marketing of these products. The brand first came into being in the year 1971. There a number of different candies and chocolate bars of places like Mexico, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand that are known to use this brand for their better marketing.
In the beginning days, the Willy Wonka Candy Company was known to produce products like dweebs, punks, sour heart and oompas. But at a later stage it changed the products and came up with newer ones that contained names like bottle caps, nerds’ ropes, pixy stix, fun dips, runts, spree and many more mouth watering candy like stuffs. One of their most popular products among both men and women is the runts. The Willy Wonka Candy Company came up with the runts in the year 1982. These candies have a hard outer crust whereas the center is powdery. Not only the children but even the adults love them too. It is available in a number of fruity flavors; orange, lime, banana, cherry and strawberry are some of the most like flavors by children. During the late nineties, the company stopped the production of the lime flavors and came up with two new flavors, those were raspberry and watermelon. In the recent years, runts are available in flavors like banana, grape, orange and green apple.
During the 1990s, another product from the Willy Wonka Candy Company became very popular, it was the Tropical Runts. It is devoid of the hard crust and has a soft texture that was mainly taken as a chewing gum. The key ingredients that are used in the Willy Wonka candy runts are com syrup, calcium stearate, artificial flavors, malic acid, and color additives.