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!?

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.
plmagee@earthlink.net Phone: 1-330-659-7048
 
 
 

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. 
 
 
More current events include gathering for curry night, a tradition among a group of friendly competitors. Photo taken during the 2010 PMCA Production Conference 2010 at Hershey.

 
 
Pat at 2010 Induction into the Candy Hall of Fame, presented by the National Confectionery Sales Association.
Sharing the event with her at the head table is husband, Greg Nemetz. Following is a bit of her acceptance speech, which fortunately, only had to last 5 minutes:
 

The Candy Hall of Fame

 

What an honor it is to be talking to you

And standing up on this stage.

It blows me away to realize

I’ve reached that certain age.

 

A few years ago when Teresa & Steve said

That someone submitted my name:

Well I laughed, I chortled and retorted,

“I’m not old enough” was my refrain.

 

Yours truly was still stubbornly bound

Not to admit that it might be a fit –

But lo and behold that esteemed age came

To be considered for the best of it.

 

Now, at RCI, PMCA, NCA, or AACT,

That milestone age I won’t claim.

But I am honored to join this very elite group

At the glittering NCSA Candy Hall of Fame.

 


- Pat Magee 2010


 

 

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.
 

 
Yours Truly covering the PMCA Suppliers Expo at its first
stint after Hershey, in 2011 at the Lancaster Convention Center,
Lancaster (Lank-iss-ter), PA.
 

Congratulations to Joan Sweeting (left), Madelaine Chocolate Co., upon her induction into the Candy Hall of Fame, Class of 2011, posing with Magee, Class of 2010.