Sweet Sculpture: Workers Step Up to the Drawing Board
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In their original game plan Sperandio and Grennan hoped to manufacture the new candy and wrapper in at least a limited quantity at the factory and market and distribute it through the company’s normal channels. But the Franklin Park plant manager, Charles Brashears, says the factory is not set up to make and distribute small product runs, so Sperandio is trying to line up a different manufacturer. Still, for the 12 factory workers, all members of Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers Union Local 552, the candy project promises to be a definite break from their normal work routine. The Local 552 members will create their own candy, wrapper, and marketing plan during an intensive week together in a conference room at the factory.
The beleaguered Chicago International Art Exposition just got some good news. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority has granted Art Expo permission to set up its 1994 fair in the rotunda at Navy Pier, site of many former Art Expos. Mark Lyman, executive director of the Lakeside Group, which runs Art Expo, took the good news as a sign that he may have first dibs on the new Navy Pier exhibition halls that are expected to be open in time for the 1995 fair. Lyman said he has so far signed 50 dealers, about half the projected total, to this May’s event, to be held at McCormick Place’s Donnelley Hall.
