Impressing Healthy Candy Empire

Ali­na Morse, inven­tor of can­dy that cleans your teeth, may have already appeared on the cov­er of Entre­pre­neur Mag­a­zine and giv­en the #1 spot as the fastest grow­ing can­dy com­pa­ny in Amer­i­ca by INC Mag­a­zine, but Wednes­day it was the com­pli­ments bestowed upon her dur­ing her appear­ance on “The Dr. Oz Show” that left her near­ly speechless.
 
“I most trea­sure the fact that you are build­ing some­thing that is good for Amer­i­ca,” said Oz, car­dio­tho­racic sur­geon, health expert & best­selling author. “I’m most impressed that you use beet root & turmer­ic for the col­or­ing [in your can­dies]. They don’t have to use syn­thet­ic mate­ri­als. You’re good at mar­ket­ing, a great sales­men, have great pack­ag­ing, and great devel­op­ment,” said Cor­co­ran, a ‘shark’ investor on ABC’s Shark Tank. “Ali­na, I’m going to hire you to run my busi­ness. I don’t think you need any help what­so­ev­er. You could prob­a­bly take anoth­er busi­ness on. This lady [Ali­na] does not need advice. She could advise me.”
 
At age sev­en, while research­ing ways to cre­ate healthy can­dy she could have all the time, Morse invent­ed Zol­lipops®, the clean teeth lol­lipops, and hit shelves in 2014 at age nine. Her Zol­li® Can­dy line (Zol­lipops, Zol­li Drops, Zaf­fi® Taffy, Zol­li Caramelz, Zol­li Gumeez, Zol­li Ball Popz) is now sold at over 20,000 retail­ers, includ­ing America’s largest, includ­ing the #1 retail­er, Wal­mart, the #1 gro­cer, Kroger, the #1 drug chain, CVS, and the #1 online, Ama­zon. She also exports to Chi­na, Korea and France, while com­mit­ting 10 per­cent of prof­its to sup­port an increase in oral health edu­ca­tion in schools by giv­ing 4‑MM prod­ucts through her “Mil­lion Smiles Ini­tia­tive” to help fight America’s most chron­ic child­hood dis­ease — tooth decay.
 
Ear­li­er this week, Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion (NBC-Uni­ver­sal) announced it had part­nered with Morse’s com­pa­ny for its new film, The Boss Baby: Fam­i­ly Busi­ness, to launch lim­it­ed-edi­tion pack­ag­ing of Zol­li Can­dy fea­tur­ing new and return­ing Boss Baby char­ac­ters. The new lim­it­ed-edi­tion healthy can­dy prod­ucts fea­ture two beloved char­ac­ters from the upcom­ing film – serv­ing as this sea­son’s must-have movie & lunch-box snack for Boss Baby fans to enjoy. The spe­cial­ly marked bags will be avail­able at retail­ers nation­wide for $5.99 begin­ning this month. The Boss Baby sequel will hit the­aters on Sep­tem­ber 17, 2021.