@Edent It sounds like on a peopling level the sweets worked well and maybe paired with small business cards and/or a QR code you could combine the two.
I once cheered folk on 1st day of a post-stressful utter cluster-F of a mass office move by offering vegetarian jelly beans Dr Who style.
Great way to get people to come and say hi and talk to one another. Management couldn't even make us go back to work cos there were no PCs or phones (their mess).