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Colts Chocolates, the Nashville purveyor that makes the wildly popular Colts Bolts chocolate-peanut-butter puck, has new owners and plans for significant expansion — including a branded place to grab one of the treats while at the mall.
Until last month, Colts had a small retail presence in the front of its old Gulch chocolate-making factory, as well as in a few shops and other kiosks. The new owners believe they have an opportunity to turn the oldest specialty chocolate maker in Tennessee into a household brand. Yes, at years, Goo Goo Cluster is considerably older, but Goo Goos are mass-produced, making them a different category of confection.
Before she was a sweetheart of the confectionary industry, Colt was one of the singing-and-dancing Hee Haw Honeys on Hee Haw, the iconic music-and-comedy TV show that ran from until Before Hee Haw, she regularly performed as an opener for Buck Owens. Colt married at age 15 and became a mother at Initially, making chocolate at home was how she expressed her creativity as a young mother, and she quips that singing and cooking were the only two things she knew how to do.
After her six-year run on TV, she decided to start the chocolate business. In the beginning, I bought tinfoil at Kroger and cut it into little squares myself [to wrap the Colts Bolts].
I did not know where to buy packaging. Over the years she learned, eventually figuring out how to use equipment designed for making hamburger patties to shape the Colts Bolts. The business, she says, has been fairly recession-proof. Colt says that in , when other local businesses suffered, people wanted to buy an affordable sweet treat.
Colt no longer has an equity stake in the firm, but she is helping out with public appearances. The company had outgrown its Gulch location and closed the Overton Street factory in May to move into the former Piggly Wiggly grocery store at Gallatin Pike in Inglewood.
Blocher says a retail store will eventually be added to the Inglewood location, likely by the beginning of But for now, the retail focus is the Opry Mills kiosk, plus another the company plans to open in the Mall at Green Hills in late July. In addition to the new mall-based retail kiosks, Colts will unveil a new logo and packaging this summer.
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