Claeys Candy News Today

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

South Bend-based Claeys Candy plans to leave its longtime home south of downtown and build a modern $8 million production facility in the Blackthorn area. Company President Gregg Claeys said his grandfather, Jerome Claeys, founded the company in 1919 in two rented garages on North Blaine Avenue on the city’s northwest side. Since then it has moved into three other buildings, and has operated since 1941 from 525 S. Taylor St., which is roughly behind home plate at Four Winds Field. The comp...