Mary's Candies Continues to Grow

DAYTON – A spur-of-the moment call in to The Michael Smerconish Program on Sirius XM resulted in a nice bump in sales for Mary's Candies in Dayton, this month.

Candy maker Nathanial Murphy was listening to the program when the hosts took off on a tangent bemoaning the lack of U.S. made goods. People began calling in and naming U.S. based companies they supported.

Co-owner (and Nathanial's wife) Erin Murphy decided to call in and introduced Mary's Candies as a small U.S. manufacturer that uses all quality U.S. ingredients. The hosts quizzed the Murphys about their business while they pulled up...