Our history: Retail Confectioners International (RCI) is a not-for-profit trade association founded in Chicago in 1917.  Its membership is composed of the most prominent manufacturing retailers of quality boxed chocolate and other confectionery products throughout the U.S., Canada and overseas.

For over 90 years, RCI has represented the interests of confectionery manufacturing retailers, and has promoted public interest in these products.  RCI is the only trade association in North America dedicated specifically to this niche of the confectionery industry.