Newberry Candy, the decade-old Thousand Oaks candy shop known for its handcrafted English toffee and fudge, is opening a second location later this summer at The Oaks mall — its first expansion since the business began. The new storefront will be roughly double the size of the original 700-square-foot shop, and it will anchor itself in one of the mall's busiest stretches, between Lovisa and Game Lab, across from Joystick Arcades.
Owner John Newberry told WhatNow Los Angeles that he wanted to expand into a more spacious, higher-foot-traffic location. He said The Oaks felt like the right fit for the brand's next chapter, noting that while plenty of locals already know Newberry Candy, plenty of others still do not.
The shop traces its roots to recipes Diana Newberry created in the 1970s, which her son John later used to open the business's original Thousand Oaks Boulevard kitchen on December 11, 2016, according to Newberry Candy. That original kitchen will remain the company's production hub even after the new store opens — all candy will still be made there, while the mall location operates strictly as a retail space, per a Newberry Candy post on Facebook.
A Storefront Designed Like Grandma's Kitchen
Newberry described the new space's intended feel in personal terms, saying he wants customers to feel like they are standing at a grandmother's kitchen counter. The design will lean into that idea, with a kitchen island serving as the point-of-sale counter and a dining room table set up on the sales floor for displays, creating an atmosphere modeled after a grandmother's kitchen or dining room.
The expanded shop will carry the same lineup that built Newberry Candy's local following: chocolate-covered treats, gift baskets, caramel apples, brittles, marshmallows, and the fudge and English toffee the brand is best known for. That fudge recently earned regional recognition, appearing in Visit Conejo Valley's 2026 “101 Things to Do Just Off the 101” travel guide, which promotes local culinary stops along Highway 101 between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
Not the First Setback the Shop Has Overcome
This isn't the first time Newberry Candy has had to rebuild its footing. In September 2022, an elderly driver accidentally crashed a BMW through the front window of the original Thousand Oaks Boulevard storefront, causing extensive interior destruction, according to the Simi Valley Acorn. The crash destroyed display cases and inventory, though the shop's primary candy-making kettle survived intact.
The business also gives back locally through its “Sunday FUND-day” events, during which it donates 20 percent of sales from designated periods to local organizations, per Newberry Candy. Those fundraising windows are typically scheduled outside the shop's peak holiday production months.
The Oaks Bets on New Storefronts Under New Ownership
Newberry Candy's expansion arrives as The Oaks itself undergoes a broader transformation. The 1.2 million-square-foot mall was sold in late 2024 for $157 million to Los Angeles-based Stockdale Capital Partners, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal. Longtime owner Macerich Co. had purchased the property in 2002 for $153 million and later invested $250 million in a 2008 makeover before selling to reduce corporate debt.
That $157 million sale valued the mall at roughly $130 per square foot, a price point that fits broader regional trends of investors acquiring suburban malls to update their storefronts, per The Real Deal. Stockdale has since launched a multi-month interior painting and common-area renovation project across the property's public spaces in mid-2026, targeting corridors, entrances, and seating areas as part of a wider modernization push, the National Law Review reported.
The Oaks was originally developed in 1978 by The Hahn Company and Janss Investment Company and has served as Thousand Oaks' primary commercial retail hub for nearly five decades, according to the Acorn. Newberry Candy's new neighbors at the mall will include incoming concepts like BiBro and Pop Mart, positioned near the food court alongside Hot Topic — a stretch of the property aimed at capturing spontaneous foot traffic from mall visitors.
