Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Niagara Falls chocolatier Mary Ann Hess has her sights set on a chocolate factory which she plans to have open in just a few months.
The location has already been selected for Niagara’s Honeymoon Sweets and now she’s hoping her local chocolate fans will help her win a Federal Express small business contest that would catapult her forward in her plans to become a candy manufacturer in Niagara Falls.
She is asking for votes from the community to win a $25,000 grant from Federal Express in their “Think Bigger” small business grant contest.
“I’m trying to buy a melter,” she said. “A melter is $25,000 and the grant is $25,000, so its a no brainer. It’s meant for me to do.”
The contest is based on the stories behind the small businesses of America, and Hess’s is hoping her story is compelling enough to help her win the big prize. “I started my company because my grandson has Crohn’s Disease and I’m trying to build him a factory so he’ll have a guaranteed future.
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Votes may be place every 24 hours on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram through the www.fedex.com site.
Hess, who also works at Chelsea Salon and Day Spa in Niagara Falls, is just back from Hollywood, where she increased national exposure for Niagara’s Honeymoon Sweets at the Academy Awards, offering glittering gift bags of her candy to the Hollywood elite at the Roger Neal’s Academy Award gift lounge.
The Federal Express contest is based on the stories behind the small businesses of America, and Hess’s is hoping her story is compelling enough to help her win the big prize. “I started my company because my grandson has Crohn’s Disease and I’m trying to build him a factory so he’ll have a guaranteed future.”
Votes may be place every 24 hours on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram through the www.fedex.com site.
In the meantime, Hess will be busy placing orders for the people she met in Hollywood. “I’m going to be doing some work for Stephen Speilberg. I’m just waiting for the call,” she said. She’s also making chocolates for the cable show, “Little Women,” and she’s been invited to sell her products in the gifts shop of a new German food restaurant in Los Angeles called Jeanette’s Edelweiss, which she said is preparing to franchise.
