Northern Michigan’s Willy Wonka?
By Craig Manning | Aug. 29, 2026
Bentley Biallas wants to be an engineer, but he’d sure have a bright future in sales.
The teenager, who started his freshman year of high school at Kalkaska Public Schools thisweek, is one of just four students in the country being highlighted as part of a new promotional campaign for World’s Finest Chocolate, alongside star college football players Harlem Berry and Leland Smith. Based in Chicago, World’s Finest Chocolate has been partnering on fundraising campaigns with schools and sports teams since the 1940s. Biallas caught the eye of executives there after racking up more than 300 sales in the last five years.
Biallas started selling chocolate bars in fourth grade …
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