The most famous candy bar in the world, the Snickers bar, is part of the Mars candy Empire. A company that began right here in Tacoma, Washington in 1911. Frank Mars the creator of the Mars candy company started his first candy company here in Tacoma before eventually moving to Minneapolis in the 1920s and forging the company that we know today. Tacoma is simply too brand loyal to our two major candy companies that were already established here, the Johnson Candy Company and Brown & Haley, which