PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) It s considered a sugary first sign of spring: Peeps hitting store shelves.
After shutting down operations last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based company that produces the iconic Easter candy is back in operation.
Just Born Quality Confection, a family-owned company, has been making Peeps since 1923.
Production was halted for six weeks during the pandemic, but product was on hiatus from store shelves for nine months. Halloween, Christmas and Valentine s Day Peeps were suspended as a result. Thankfully, they are making their return just in time for Easter.
Just Born makes two billion Peeps per year. It s enough to circle the earth twice.
Alcom Printing Group, Inc has purchased Christmas City Printing Co., Inc. of Bethlehem, Pa. The acquisition is the third in as many years. Since 2017, Alcom has acquired Great Atlantic Graphics, Lansdale, Pa. and Payne Printery, Dallas, Pa. Christmas City has joined the combined excellence of their business operations offering customers an integrated spectrum of print solutions including technologically-advanced facilities offering digital, web, sheetfed, large format, direct mail, branded promotional products and distribution capabilities. Together, the companies combine a wealth of knowledge, experience, innovation, and responsiveness to customer needs.
Alcom, a recognized leader in the industry with over 75 years of service excellence, is a leading provider of integrated solutions for print, direct mail, marketing and business development and offers solutions that include commercial sheetfed and web lithography, digital print, wide format, print on demand, fulfillment solutions,