Yankee Candle

When Michael Kittredge made his first candle in 1969 from a pound of canning wax and four crayons, melting the wax on his mother’s stove top and using milk cartons for molds, he was a high school kid who was low on cash and needed a cheap way to make Christmas presents. Friends and neighbors asked for more, and forty years later Kittredge’s business is the largest candle retailer in the world. The Yankee Candle flagship store in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, draws three million visitors per year and is one of the largest tourist attractions in the state, second only to the Freedom Trail. It offers visitors not only the greatest variety of Yankee Candle scents available, but also a unique atmosphere with a variety of interactive exhibits and a Candle Making Museum.