FAIRFIELD, CA – APRIL 2: Jelly beans sit in a bin waiting to be packaged on the assembly line at the Jelly Belly Factory April 2, 2007 in Fairfield, California. The Jelly Belly Factory produces approximately 14 billion jelly beans a year. With less than a week before Easter Sunday, retailers stock their shelves full of jelly beans, chocolates, and other traditional candies for Easter. (Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)
You may have heard about how one of the founders of Jelly Belly is holding a Willy Wonka-style contest where people can find golden tickets to try to win one of his candy factories. Jelly Belly just put out a message to clarify he sold his stake in their company 40 years ago, so you won't win one of THEIR factories, you'll win one from this guy's other company.
While David Klein FOUNDED their company, he sold his stake 40 years ago and owns a different candy company, called Spectrum Confections.
And you can tell Jelly Belly is not super pumped about the confusion with the contest by how they phrased their message.
Quote, "Due to confusion in the marketplace, Jelly Belly Candy Company would like to take this opportunity to clear up the misconception that it is involved with a contest that purportedly offers a candy factory as its grand prize."
They also downplayed Klein's role in founding the company. They say he was, quote, "an independent third party when he came up with the name 'Jelly Belly' and other marketing ideas in 1976."
So if you win this contest, you won't be taking over Jelly Belly's empire, you'll get one of Klein's factories, most likely in Florida.
