The gift of that experience provided visits to more than 100 candy plants worldwide and writing about them. Advertising sales to suppliers of equipment, ingredients and packaging materials advanced her position to management as publisher of the magazine. A special bright spot included serving as manager of the Candy Industry Kettle Committee, where she publicized and promoted the prestigious Kettle Award for almost two decades.

As that chapter closed, she moved on to establish her own agency just prior to the arrival of the 21st century. Since 1999, Magee’s company continues to evolve as a consultancy that has ranged from machinery sales, to speaking at industry events in the USA and abroad, attending and participating in trade shows, enhancing publicity for individuals and companies via tailored public relations services, and publishing a wide-range of news stories and feature articles in on-line and print magazines.

When
Why not today!? 2010.

Why
The intention of P Magee Enterprises is to help others in the confectionery industry meet their editorial and promotional goals with creativity and timeliness.
How
Call or send us an email. We enjoy hearing from you.

 

At right, Pat congratulates Terry Richardson, Richardson Researches, Inc., at left, an Inductee into the 2009 Candy Hall of Fame. CHoF is sponsored by the National Confectionery Sales Association (NCSA).

 

 

Malcolm Blue, Peters Chocolate Co., Div. Nestle, shares
placenta of cacao pod with Pat during Elaine Gonzalez's
first guided tour into Tabasco and Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

 
The staff cleans up pretty well after setting up the booth:
(l-r) Rich Kiesel, Pat Magee, Liesbeth Severiens. 

Bio

Who
P Magee Enterprises is a public relations agency with a vision for helping businesses in the confectionery and chocolate manufacturing industry achieve distinction in the marketplace. Our office is based in Richfield, Ohio, and we travel to you by phone, email, or in person as part of our service.
What
We have been at this for a decade and we celebrate. Although P Magee Enterprises remains a single-proprietorship, the editorial “we” comes from talking with other professionals in the candy industry that include old friends and new, and still-to-come friends. The Web site you are viewing has been produced by many hands and minds and kicks off our celebration. Everyone we’ve ever known has gone into the making of P Magee Enterprises. So, thank you.
 
Where
Pat Magee hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her first memory of chocolate making was a field trip in first grade to an adjacent, world-famous chocolate town, where the children toured inside the factory. Time passed ... and she moved west (to Ohio) to go to college. She began her journalism career in business-to-business publishing after graduating from Kent State University and doing some odd and editorial jobs.

At the beginning of her journalism career, Magee served as night editor at the Daily Kent Stater campus newspaper, and apprenticed at the print shop that published it. Her career progressed into public relations for a health maintenance organization, adding to her technical writing, photography, and editing skills.
After reading about a major publishing company's move from New York to Cleveland, Ohio, Magee applied and found her dream job at Candy Industry magazine, through which she gained her contacts and confidence in confectionery reporting. During that time, Magee spent 17 years immersed in the language of the international confectionery field.
Fond memories

 

At left, Pat serves as manager of the Kettle Committee
with help from Kettle Committee members, including 
(right) Tim Burke, Burke Chocolate. Making 
sure the esteemed Kettle Award maintained its 
prominence from 1982 - 1999 is one of Magee's
major contributions to the US confectionery industry.
 

 

Posing for photo at Interpack, circa 1996, or 
1993 - your choice!

 
(From left) Graham Watson, retired, Norman Bartleet, UK,
talks with Susan Tiffany, former editor, Candy Industry
magazine, at Interpack. Today, Tiffany is contributing editor
of CANDYMAIL, while Watson occasionally checks for typos.