LUFKIN - On a busy highway heading into this industrial East Texas town, a candy factory stands next to a chicken processing plant that sometimes wafts the smell of bird guts across the parking lot ...

LUFKIN ­­— Family-owned Atkinson Candy makes heritage sweets the old-fashioned way, with skilled confectioners mixing and folding peanut butter, toasted coconut and natural flavorings into pounds of ...

The Atkinson Candy Co. prides itself on the distinctive taste of its Chick-O-Stick, a sweet, salty confection made from peanut butter and toasted coconut, with a ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Atkinson Candy Company is celebrating 90 years of business in Lufkin. The company first opened its doors in 1932 with B.E. and Mable Atkinson starting the business early in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Atkinson Candy Company first introduced the coconut-covered, peanut-flavored honeycomb candy stick sometime in the 1930s, ...

Atkinson Candy Company was started in 1932, during the Great Depression, when B.E. and Mabel Atkinson needed to find a way to support their family. “He got into the candy and tobacco wholesaling ...

Lufkin's Atkinson Candy Company has opened its retail outlet -- The Candy Kitchen, which will function right out of the factory. The store was born because of the "legions of people" who came in and ...

If Christmas had a flavor, it would taste like peppermint. Candy canes adorn Christmas trees and stockings around the world during the holiday season. Stores and restaurants sell peppermint flavored ...

Thursday afternoon, Atkinson Candy Company experience something for the first time in its 80-year history of candy making: a fire. Things truly heated up during the second shift around 4:30 PM. LUFKIN ...