{"id":13531,"date":"2014-03-04T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:08:11","slug":"heaths-1970s-super-crunch-with-nfl-hall-of-famer-dick-butkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=13531","title":{"rendered":"Heath’s 1970’s Super Crunch with NFL Hall-of-Famer Dick Butkus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we’re looking back at a bar first released in 1971 under the Heath brand and whose initial marketing push became intimately tied to fierce linebacker and NFL legend, Dick Butkus<\/a>.\u00a0 Let’s take a look at the Heath Super Crunch!<\/p>\n

Heath’s Super Crunch bar first launched in 1971 with a straightforward marketing push highlighting just how super it was:<\/p>\n

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Heath – Super Crunch – That about says it all – candy trade magazine advertisement – September 1971<\/p><\/div>\n

At the time, Super Crunch was the first new bar launched under the Heath name in 39 years.<\/p>\n

Someone in the Heath marketing department must have taken note that Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus was being referred to by the nickname “Super Crunch” and acted fast to sign him on to endorse their fledgling bar because by January of 1972 he was appearing in trade ads promoting it:<\/p>\n

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Heath – Super Crunch – Is Here – Dick Butkus – candy trade magazine advertisement – January 1972<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s an early trade clipping featuring Butkus with Heath’s then-director of marketing Edward Core:<\/p>\n

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Heath Super Crunch – Heath Signs Butkus – candy magazine trade clipping – April 1972<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t have an example of that first standard-size Super Crunch bar wrapper in my collection, though I do have an early 1970’s 6-ounce version with a t-shirt mail-away offer that also features spokesman Dick Butkus!:<\/p>\n

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Heath Super Crunch – Dick Butkus – t-shirt offer – 6 1\/4 oz chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

The reverse of that wrapper features Butkus wearing the “Crunch in the Mouth” t-shirt along with two lucky kids – here’s a better look [Note Butkus’ trademark jersey #51]:<\/p>\n

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Heath Super Crunch – Dick Butkus t-shirt offer photo – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

The next two wrapper examples I have to show are both of the fund raising variety.\u00a0 My suspicion is that after a few years, Heath’s Super Crunch bar was discontinued from standard distribution, but was kept in production as a fund raising offering.<\/p>\n

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Heath – Super Crunch – fund raising – 2 oz chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

The fund raising Super Crunch wrapper remained nearly identical in 1982, though the size changed, as seen here:<\/p>\n

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Heath – Super Crunch – fund raising – 1.7 oz chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1982<\/p><\/div>\n

The Heath company would be acquired by Leaf in 1989 and then Hershey in 1996, but those acquisitions don’t explain the nature of this next Super Crunch wrapper:<\/p>\n

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Caldwell Farms – Super Crunch – fund raising – 2.25 oz chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1980’s<\/p><\/div>\n

The Heath name appears nowhere on this Caldwell Farms version of Super Crunch.\u00a0 My best guess is that, perhaps Heath sold off their fund raising division to a third party – in this case Caldwell Farms.\u00a0 Whatever the case, it’s interesting to note that the brand changed hands before it disappeared entirely.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post and our coverage of Heath’s 1970’s Super Crunch bar and it’s famous spokesman, the legendary NFL linebacker, Dick Butkus<\/a>!<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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