PEEPS® Brand Candies Providing Prizes for Media and University Hosted Art Contests

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Feb 16, 2011, 12:19 ET

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Just Born, Inc., the makers of PEEPS® Brand Marshmallow Candies, is continuing its annual tradition of donating prizes for media and university-sponsored PEEPS® Diorama and Art Contests this Easter. Just Born anticipates donating prizes to more than thirty contests nationwide in which thousands of fans will show their creativity using PEEPS®. The PEEPS® Brand Team is offering these outlets, at no cost, a "PEEPS® Prize Package" for their 1st and 2nd place winners.

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For the First Place Prize, the PEEPS® team is excited to offer, for the first time, a $100 gift certificate to the NEW online PEEPS & Co® store at www.peepsandcompany.com. This certificate will be presented within a Gift Box of PEEPS® and other Just Born candy brands with a total value over $150.

The Second Place Prize will include a $50 gift certificate to the NEW online PEEPS & Co® store and again, will be packed in a Gift Box with PEEPS® and other Just Born candy brands. Its total value will be over $100.

Brian Bachrach, Senior Brand Manager of PEEPS®, commented, "Our dedicated fans continue to amaze us with their creativity! Their efforts to have fun and create PEEPS® - inspired dioramas, other artwork and even recipes keep getting more ingenious and sophisticated. We appreciate their commitment and are pleased to support these contests with very special prizes that will allow the winners to celebrate their love for PEEPS®."

For the upcoming Easter season, diverse participating media outlets range from The Washington Post and Pioneer Press to The University of Chicago Magazine and American Bar Association Magazine.

Share Your Creativity at www.Marshmallowpeeps.com!

In addition to entering local PEEPS® contests, PEEPS® encourages fans to share their diorama or favorite PEEPS-inspired art at marshmallowpeeps.com."

Photos - http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/peepsworld/galleria-p
Videos - http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/peepsworld/cinema

Just Born, Inc. is a privately owned company founded in 1923 and headquartered in Bethlehem, PA, where it manufactures PEEPS®, HOT TAMALES®, MIKE AND IKE®, MIKE AND IKE® ZOURS® and TEENEE BEANEE® Brand Candies. PEANUT CHEWS® Brand Candies are produced in Philadelphia, PA. All Just Born candies are made in the U.S.A.

SOURCE Just Born, Inc.