At the beginning of the last Century, as the number of confectionery manufacturers and wholesalers continued to grow at a rapid pace, a small group of Pennsylvania confectioners came together to work on various issues affecting them at the time, and to improve and preserve the integrity of the confectionery industry. This group was chartered on January 26, 1907 as the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Confectioners Association, by the Court of Philadelphia County.

January 2007 marks the beginning of the Association’s Centennial year, a celebration of 100 years of making confections better.