Happy New Year! News

Yay! It is 2009! Go Team.

This year to celebrate the price for the Crackheads2® 12-count trays was reduced $31.20 per tray, that is a 20% savings off the retail price!

Also, we just moved into a bigger warehouse space with taller ceilings, more docks, and are looking to expand some positions in the near future.

There will also be some new Crackheads® / Jitterbeans™ t-shirts and gear coming out soon!

Osmanium Newsletter December 2008

Hello and welcome to the Crackheads® Candy Newsletter December 2008!

This is the first installment of the Osmanium Candy Company Newsletter. We sincerely hope all of you have enjoyed your Crackheads® products and would like to introduce our newest Super Caffeinated candy with 2 names: Crackheads2® or "Crackheads squared" and Jitterbeans™.

Each box boasts approximately 600mg of Caffeine! That is the same caffeine content as in 6 cups of coffee, 7.5 Red Bull® energy drinks, or 11 cans of Mountain Dew®!

They taste great and will put some serious pep in your step! Come give them a try. On the order page enter LAN for 10% off your order!

Order Crackheads Here: http://crackheadscandy.com/order/

Order Jitterbeans Here: http://jitterbeanscandy.com/order/

Crackheads® and Crackheads2 is now carried in F.Y.E Stores

We are proud to be one of the chosen candies now carried at 550 of the 800 some F.Y.E(For Your Entertainment) stores around the United States. Go buy a box for the ones you love.

Store Locator: http://www.fye.com/Store-Locator_stcVVcatId474286VVviewcat.htm

New bulk vending machine program in full effect

We partnered up with Renegade Energy Group to offer $0.50 vending machines for Crackheads2 and Jitterbeans. The program is a little over a month old and we have almost 500 machines already sold! People love the product and the large profit margin is a great way to get your fix and make some money at the same time!

Please visit: http://www.renegadeenergygroup.com and drop us an e-mail about your interest.

New sponsorships

We are proud to have been sponsoring numerous LAN events and gaming systems around the country the past year with Crackheads and Crackheads2, some are:

http://www.jact.com

http://www.bigshotgaming.com

http://www.lanoc.org

http://www.lantacular.com

and we are excited to have recently sponsored

Rhett Bobzien

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games

http://www.scottishmasters.org/mwc2008results.html

He is the highest ranking amateur in his class. We think Jitterbeans™ will help Rhett throw entire trees, launch boulders, and hurl burlap sacks of straw higher than anyone else in 2009!

Do you have anything that you love to do and want to feel the warm glow of being sponsored? Perhaps you have a hidden talent that allows you to draw Picassos with your tongue, or perform high level mathematical calculations in your mind? Maybe you have telepathy, or know Oprah, or can kickflip back lip a double kink, or do a ho-ho. Drop us a line, we would like to get you some candy.

Osmanium happenings

We are moving to a larger facility and are happy to report that we have added some new sales positions, warehousing, and marketing people. We are also working on new product development, an education section for the website, and trying to not eat all of our products before it ships out. We also choose a new logo for Osmanium:

This comes from Bill Barder, an old animator for the Tiny Toons cartoon show

That is all for now, thank you for you enjoy our products! Please let us know if you have any comments, questions, concerns, or ideas.

John
Osmanium Candy Company
(800)495-0174 x3

Crackheads and Osmanium Press

October 16th, 2008 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Big dreams from beans"

May 2008, The Pioneer Press

May 23rd, 2008 The Onion, "All Candy Expo 2008: Like kids in some kind of a store"

May 19th, 2008 Minutes to Millions Segment on CNBC's Donnie Deutsch's, "The Big Idea" with Kevin Nealon

2 gave it a yes! Website poll loved it!

2008 M Magazine

Review Energydrinkreview.com Crackheads Product Review

February 13th, 2008 Wall St. Journal Article, "Stimulus Plan: Pack it Full of Caffeine"

November 12th, 2007 Medical College of Wisconsin, Spotlight on Science series, "From Idea Conception to Market: How Crackheads���® Candy Grew in Wisconsin""

March 21st, 2007 OnMilwaukee.com, "Crackheads spell success for local entrepreneur"

April 30th, 2007 Chemical Engineering News, "All About Vices"

2007 Shepard Express

2007 Confectioner

2007 Distribution Channels

NEW! Crackheads / Jitterbeans Vending Program

Interested in making some extra $$?

We are proud to have partnered with Renegade Energy Group to create and sell our new Crackheads2® / Jitterbeans®(so you can go into the conservative stores) product through bulk vending machines. The program launched in October of 2008 and has a tremendous response!

Want to get involved with Crackheads2®? The vending business is an excellent way to make some extra side cash for your endeavors. Check out some of these fancy industry facts:

No other product offers gourmet ingredients, excellent taste, and the equivalent caffeine from 1.5 cups of coffee for $0.50!

Why is this such a tremendous opportunity?

Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day making the United States the LEADING CONSUMER of coffee in the world. (1)

Vending confections in candy is a $1.2 Billion dollar market. (2)

Analysts see business of candy as 'recession-proof'. (3)

Dark Chocolate sales accelerating by 50%+ in 2007, trend to continue. (4)

Chocolate is the largest selling confection category. (5)

The energy drink market became a $5.4 billion dollar market in 2007, and both Goldman Sachs and Mintel predict that it will hit $10 billion by 2010. (6)

Caffeine is the world's most popular mood-altering drug, eclipsing nicotine and alcohol. (7)

Key Features

Virtually no competition, this is a 1 of a kind product

Cost effective for the consumer. $0.50 for a cup and half of gourmet coffee is unheard of!

Approximately 155mg of Caffeine per vend! That is the same Caffeine content in 2 Red Bull® energy drinks or 1.5 cups of coffee!

2 names offered to accommodate any location(Crackheads2® and Jitterbeans™

1 Full empty provides a Net Profit of approximately $150.00 per machine.

$0.35 profit per $0.50 vend

Gourmet Caffeinated Product with the highest caffeine content on the market

Excellent taste without all the additives or problems from liquid energy drinks

No franchising fees

Machines are guaranteed for life

For More Details Call Renegade Energy Group at (866)774-2074 or visit www.RenegadeEnergyGroup.com

References

(1)The National Coffee Association and The Specialty Coffee Association of America
(2) National Confectioners Association
(3)The San Diego Union-Tribune June 30th, 2008
(4)National Confectioners Association
(5)National Confectioners Association 2007
(6)Mintel Energy Drink Report 2006
(7)Jan/Feb 2006 Candy Business

We're now in F.Y.E Stores!

St. Nick is coming up!

If you are looking for a delicious, unique, caffeinated gift this holiday season look no further than your local F.Y.E store! F.Y.E is now carrying Crackheads and Crackheads2 at most of their locations.

Stop in and buy a box, your friends are saying thank you already!

To find a location near you click here

Jitterbeans Launched! New Osmanium.com Website!

Love the Crackheads® product, but not the name? To please you we created a new name for our new ultra caffeinated Crackheads2® product to put your mind at ease. Please visit: www.JitterbeansCandy.com

Jitterbeans™ was officially launched October 14th, 2008 along with this new Jitterbeans.com website! We have been getting a great response. People love the taste and the nice caffeine kick!

We also have a bulk vending machine opportunity for interested individuals at www.RenegadeEnergyGroup.com Shortly there will be a banner on the site.

Journal Sentinel Newspaper Article on Osmanium October 16th, 2008

Here is an article on Osmanium that appeared in the October 16th, 2008 newspaper.

View Article Here

Big dreams from beans By KRISTINE HANSEN Special to the Journal Sentinel Posted: Oct. 16, 2008

Who he is:

John Osmanski

What he does:

Owns Osmanium, which makes chocolate-covered espresso beans

John Osmanski's boutique candy empire got its first jolt during an all-night video game session at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, before he was even a student there.

"I essentially made a big pancake of chocolate and coffee," he said.

Osmanski, 27, is the founder and owner of Osmanium, a Milwaukee company that produces chocolate-covered espresso beans under the names Jitter Beans, Crackheads and Crackheads2.

He still loves to snack on the chocolates, which are sold in 1.3-ounce boxes at local stores, including Outpost Natural Foods Co-op, Beans & Barley and Koppa's Farwell Foods.

"If you don't love it, what's the purpose?" he said.

Who he is: John Osmanski

What he does: Owns Osmanium, which makes chocolate-covered espresso beans

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Crackheads is what Osmanski and his MSOE classmates - he graduated in 2006, with a degree in biomedical engineering - called people who tried to function without a morning cup of coffee.

One box of Crackheads2 / Jitterbeans chocolate-covered espresso beans, he says, is equal to the caffeine in six cups of coffee, 7 1/2 energy drinks or 11 cans of cola.

Since starting his company in 2004, Osmanski has expanded it from a handcrafted operation to a large-scale company.

While he used to make the chocolates on a double-boiler in his kitchen ("just to see if anyone would like them") and print the boxes at a local Kinko's, today he employs a team in Madison to assemble the boxes, and the chocolates are made at a plant elsewhere in the Midwest.

In September, Osmanski signed a deal with another company to make and sell customized vending machines (dispensing a handful of his chocolates for 50 cents) to universities, hospitals, stores and other businesses.

So far, the venture has sold a couple hundred of the machines.

"I don't know if this would happen if I were in, say, Texas," Osmanski said. "I like this city a lot. The traditional way of business does apply, but there's so many other methods. You can use your friends and family as a test market, for instance."

It's all a far cry from his first business, a skateboard shop in Wales that he sold after a year to concentrate on college.

"Everything is happening all at once," he said.

CRACKHEADS2 Launched!

Hello hello,

Finally we have our new product(s) launched. There is a sister website for our product, Jitterbeans(tm), which is the same as the Crackheads2 product but marketed in a different way. These new products provide a delicious rich chocolate and coffee taste, along with a huge caffeine kick. Crackheads2 will help motivate you throughout your do no matter what you do. The problems in dealing with hot liquid coffee and odd tasking energy drinks is over. Enjoy a pick-me-up anytime, anywhere!

Each box of Crackheads2(tm) / Jitterbeans(tm) contains the approximate equivalent of 6 cups of coffee, 7.5 energy drinks, or 11 cans of cola!

You will also notice more changes to the website in the next week or so as we update each section with new Crackheads2 information.

Please let us know if you have any questions,

-Osmanium

EDIT: Dec 3rd, 2008: Crackheads2 is available at 550 F.Y.E stores across the United States as well as many of the retailers that currently carry Crackheads. The list will be updated soon, we have become professional jugglers lately....Sort of. Lookup your nearest F.Y.E location here

NEW PRODUCT SNEAK PEEK

Everyone is awaiting the new product employment, and it is almost here! Below is a sneak peek of the new product.

New Product Name: Crackheads squared(r) and Jitterbeans(tm)

Now in 2 names for your delectable pleasure

Features:

Delicious flavor

600mg of Caffeine per box! That iss 6 cups of coffee, 7.5 Red Bulls(r) and 11 cans of Mountain Dew(r)!

Delicious rich dark chocolate(avg. 60% cocoa), espresso bean center, light candy shell, and Caffeine added.

Retail Price per box: $3.25, that is about than $0.50 per cup of coffee!

Totally legal, functional, good for you, and NO HYDROGENATED OILS or HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUPS

More to follow....

NEW BULK VENDING PROGRAM ABOUT TO LAUNCH

We are close to launching a new product which is ultra caffeinated, delicious, and coming to a store near you!

The new product contains 3 times the caffeine as regular Crackheads and are delicious!

We are also proud to introduce a bulk vending program through an exclusive distribution agreement with Renegade Energy Group. There will be more details shortly, if you have any immediate questions please contact us or Michael at Renegade at 866-774-2074

Best Regards,