Peter Paul Candy Company

In 1919, Peter Paul Halajian and five associates, all Armenian immigrants, founded the Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company in New Haven, Connecticut. One of their first products was a chocolate-covered coconut bar called Mounds, which was released in 1920. Each package included two bars. Following up this success was Almond Joy, a similar bar with almonds topping the coconut, which was first manufactured in 1946. The company’s advertising campaign for Mounds and Almond Joy remains a classic. Its jingle, “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t,” was inducted into the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame in 2002.