BOSTON (CBS) -- Phantom recently purchased four packages of chocolate mints at a local supermarket. The refreshing contenders were After Eight, Andes, Ghirardelli, and Haviland.

The world’s most famous candy company doesn’t exist: Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is a figment of Roald Dahl’s imagination. But there’s one thing America’s biggest candy companies ...

It took decades for New England Confectionery Co. to assemble its candy empire. And it will take just weeks for Necco to be disassembled and sold off in pieces.