Bazooka Opens New Pennsylvania Ring Pop Factory

Bazooka Brands on Friday announced that it had opened a new manufacturing plant that restores production of its Ring Pop brand candy in Northeast Pennsylvania.

The company's original Ring Pop plant in Scranton shut down unexpectedly last summer after 47 years, but after a "multimillion-dollar investment," the company officially began operations at a much larger facility in nearby Moosic, Pennsylvania.

The project allowed the company to retain the Scranton workforce and will produce 1.5 million Ring Pops per day.

Bazooka officials added that the candy is projected to see more than $100 million in retail sales this year.

"It would not have been surprising for it to take at least a year or more to get back up and running," Bazooka Brands CEO Tony Jacobs said in a statement. "But we have an incredible team, and I could not be prouder of how they responded."