IT IS well over a century since Alex Haigh started selling confectionery in the heart of Mount Gambier, but creating sweets and treats is not a lost art in the South East.
Dickens’ Delights is among the region’s confectionery producers forging its own path in the industry, which owner Kelly Schembri admits is full of its own challenges.
“Despite Dickens Delights being here for so long, I would say maybe 60pc of the community know that we are actually here,” Ms Schembri said.
“We ship nationwide and even overseas at times and it is a shame a lot of locals are not aware of us.”
Trekking to interstate markets regularly with her family in-toe, Ms Schembri said there was little she would change about working in the sector.
“It is a bit tougher in summer with the heat than in winter, but regardless it is a great area of work,” she said.
“There are days where you think a product will sell but it will not, then there are days where you think it will not sell and it does.
“But at the end of the day we are a small, family-owned confectionery business just like Haigh’s Chocolates were and that is something special.”
