Russell Stover Candies
In 1924, the Russell Stover sold his share of the Eskimo Pie company for $30,000 and moved to Denver, Colorado, where he and his wife started a new company, "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies," which operated out of Clara Stover's kitchen in their bungalow, making boxed chocolates.
In 1925 the couple opened a candy factory in Denver and another one in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1931 the company moved its headquarters to Kansas City.
During the 1940s, the name of the company was officially changed to Russell Stover Candies.
When Russell Stover died in 1954, the company that bore his name was producing 11 million pounds of candy annually, and selling its products through 40 Russell Stover shops and in about 2,000 department stores.
Clara Stover operated the company until 1960, when it was sold to Louis Ward, who took the regional brand into national and international markets.
The Ward family still owns the Russell Stover brand, along with the Whitman's and Pangburn's brands of chocolates, and thus retains the commercial use of Russell Stover's name.
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