Happy Valentine's Day from the IMPLAN team! ❤️ To mark this special day, we're sharing some fun facts about the economic impacts behind our favorite sweet treats:
🍫 Candy manufacturing employs almost 70K people in the United States with an annual output of $31B. Via analysis in IMPLAN, this contributes to a total employment of 302K people and an output of $94B annually through supply chain and household spending.
🍫 Pennsylvania has 5 of the top 10 counties in terms of employment in chocolate candy manufacturing. Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the home of Hershey’s, has the largest percentage of employment in the candy manufacturing industries in the United States.
🍫 Since 2001, there has been a major shift in the type of sugar used in chocolate production from cane sugar to beet sugar. This created losses for sugar cane in Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Texas, while sugar beet production increased in Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, and Michigan.