High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pearson`s Candy Company is a chocolate and confectionery manufacturer headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded as a confectionery distribution firm in 1909, the company began to manufacture its own products in 1912. Originally a family-owned company, Pearson`s experienced changes in ownership, acquisitions and product alterations in the 1960s and 70s, before being purchased by the current owners in 1989.