Morley Candy Company or Morley Candy Makers is a confectioner based in Clinton Township, Michigan. The company, founded in 1919, is famous for its peanut butter blocks and assorted chocolates. Morley Candy owns and markets the Sanders Confectionary line, which is famous for its Bumpy Cakes, sundae topping and ice cream, particularly in and around Detroit, Michigan. Michigan school children often sell Morley Candy for school fundraisers.
On March 25, 2004, Ronald Rapson became president of Morley Brands LLC.
There are three Morley Candy retail stores in the Metro Detroit area -- Clinton Township, Rochester and Eastpointe.
On October 26, 2006, President George W. Bush made an unannounced visit to Morley's main factory on Hall Road in Clinton Township before attending a political fundraiser. After touring the facility he bought, amongst other things, a can of Sanders hot fudge sundae topping for himself and his presidential staff.
Famous quotes containing the words morley and/or candy:
“God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he’d done on those Five Days.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
“Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)