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.
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“God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he’d done on those Five Days.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
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Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
—Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)
“The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, “the sweet seriousness of sixteen,” the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,—we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)