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Fun Facts!
* Middlebury Sweets was established in 2007 under
the name of Sweet Surprises Down Candy Lane!
* We expanded and became the largest candy store in
Vermont in the spring of 2011!
* Blanca Jenne began making chocolate in early 2011!
* We have over 1000 different products!
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MIDDLEBURY SWEETS
VERMONT'S LARGEST CANDY STORE
© Copyright Middlebury Sweets
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ABOUT
Middlebury Sweets was established in August of
2007. I, Blanca Jenne, owned and operated a small
scrapbook store that I had opened in 2004. I ran the
business from a building located behind my home
and worked full time.

After being laid off from my job in 2006, right before
my due date to have my daughter in June of 2006,
my husband and I regrouped and decided to expand
the scrapbook store, as my new full time job, rather
then finding another job within corporate America.
So we decided to  build a new building on our
existing business property in East Middlebury. My
husband has owned and operated ABC Self Storage
and UHAUL since 1998. This business was and still is
our bread and butter!

When we build the new building, we added more
climate controlled  storage units and a new retail
space for my husbands office and a new retail space
to move the scrapbook store into.

I had sold candy many years ago when I ran a small
gift basket business. I loved selling candy! So.....
HOW IT STARTED
....when Middlebury lost it's candy store downtown,
I talked my husband into letting me put a small
candy store inside the scrapbook store, because I
remembered how fun it was to sell candy!

We opened as "Sweet Surprises Down Candy Lane"
and it did very well, but the scrapbooking began to
suffer once the recession hit. Because the scrapbook
store was doing poorly, we knew we had to come up
with a better plan. So I suggested we turn the store
into all candy. So we did it slowly over a years time.
We changed the name to Middlebury Sweets to
honor the great town we live in and to shorten the
name. Because the old name was surely a mouth full!

By the beginning of 2011, we were primarily a candy
store and could now boast we were the largest candy
store in the state! I also began making my own
chocolates in the spring of 2011.  This is the happiest
I have EVER been in a career and feel like I finally
found my calling. I love making people happy and I
certainly love making chocolates! What could be
better then that??