Katie’s Journey
Katie’s Candies has built a 28-year reputation of offering delicious, mouth-watering chocolates to our customers in a friendly and timely manner. is a Washington Corporation based in Chehalis, Washington. The business started as a sole proprietorship in 1986 and was incorporated in 1996. Kathleen Dillon, proprietor, began making candy as a hobby in 1975, with increased variety an
d style each year. In 1986, several close friends and a local business owner encouraged Kathleen to try marketing her chocolate candies as a commercial enterprise. With the help and encouragement from family and friends she embarked upon her journey of creating and selling hand-dipped chocolates via a rented commercial kitchen. In 1987, she continued her journey and relocated into her own commercial kitchen with a very small area for retail sales. The first few years of business showed a slow increase in growth as a result of a small operating budget. Towards the end of 1989, Kathleen came to the realization that in order to continue favorable growth in sales, the present facility was inadequate for the production, wholesaling and retailing of her product. The fall of 1990 brought about the remodeling of the present structure creating a retail store and packaging area.
