Owned by Scotty and Ashley Jackson since 2014, Apple Tree Chocolate specializes in caramel apples, peanut brittle, chocolate barks and fudge. Tour their kitchen and see their team busy at work crafting homemade peanut brittle or caramel apples. Visit their retail shop, where they carry over a hundred products either made in their kitchen or from a variety of RCI vendors.

Founded in 2000 by Cynthia Calvert-Copeland, apecialtybox.com was a family-owned company with headquarters and warehouse centrally located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For two decades they designed and produced exciting and trendsetting packaging in America’s heartland, continuing to expand their product line and increase their capabilities.  In 2022, the company was acquired by Oliver Inc., a sustainably driven custom-packaging provider, with manufacturing operations in Ohio, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Virginia and New York and a combined experience of more than 250 years in producing folding cartons, marketing collateral and labels. Additionally, as a Forest Stewardship Council^®-certified organization, Oliver Inc. is committed to providing unique packaging solutions, while also being environmentally responsible.

Get a peek behind the curtain of the magical process that goes from concept to reality. It starts with the CAD department, which focuses on the geometry of the box. Next, visit prepress where the colorful art is married to the geometry. Then, step out into the production area where ideas transform into physical objects. The press adds the color to the paperboard at thousands of impressions per minute. The die cutter cuts out the boxes as if it were a giant cookie cutter. Boxes scheduled for any extra beauty treatments such as windows, foils, or embossing will go to the appropriate treatment station. Next stop is the folder/gluer that finalizes the shape of the box. From there packaging is loaded into shipper boxes. Custom boxes make their way directly to the shipping department for the trip home. Standard boxes head over to the warehouse where they eagerly await their chance to be shipped out and brighten someone’s day. 

Established in 1927, Woody Candy Company is the oldest candy manufacturer in Oklahoma. Founded by Claude Woody and his wife, Lucille, the ran the company until their son Claude Jr. took over in the early 1980s. Claude Jr and his wife Judy owned and operated the company until 2014, when Bill Jackson and his son, Brian, purchased it from them. With Claude, Jr. now acting as President Emeritus, the company has welcomed Brian Jackson, as its new leader. A former logistics officer in the U.S. Navy, Brian is the third generation of veterans to head Woody Candy Company.

For nearly 100 years, the Woody Candy Company has been perfecting their recipes and putting their own spin on classic American confections, such as English butter toffee, pralines, Pecan Toffle^TM, Cashew Crunch and chocolate pecan turtles and fudge. For close to 25 years, the company has crafted products which are distributed nationwide in retailers most would recognize. In 2018, Woody Candy Company branched out to offer privately label products. Tour their facility and view their process of making peanut brittle and pralines, a couple of their best-selling wholesale products.