Tootsie Roll Industries

(Newser) - Melvin Gordon, who led Tootsie Roll Industries for more than five decades, has died at age 95. Gordon, the company's chairman and CEO, died yesterday in Boston after a brief illness, says Brooke Vane, a spokeswoman for the company's public relations firm. Gordon ran the Chicago-based confectioner for...

(Newser) - Owners of brands geared toward children of all ages are battling to keep notable names like Thin Mint, Tootsie Roll and Cinnamon Toast Crunch off the flavored nicotine used in electronic cigarettes. General Mills Inc., the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. are among several companies...

(Newser) - What's going on at Tootsie Roll Industries? The world may never know, at least if the company's elderly executives have their way. Tootsie Roll refuses to talk to journalists, won't hold quarterly earnings calls, and sends out poorly-scanned PDFs as earnings releases, the Wall Street Journal observes....