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The Hershey Company, commonly known as Hershey’s, is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. Hershey’s chocolate is available across the United States, and in over 60 countries worldwide. After an apprenticeship to a confectioner in 1873, Milton S. Hershey opened a candy shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1896, Hershey built a milk-processing plant so he could create and refine a recipe for his milk chocolate candies. In 1899, he developed the Hershey process, which is less sensitive to milk quality than traditional methods. In 1900, he began manufacturing Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars, also known as Hershey’s Bars or Hershey Bars.

In 1903, Hershey began construction of a chocolate plant in his hometown of Derry Church, Pennsylvania, later known as Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1907, he introduced a new candy: bite-sized, flat-bottomed, conical pieces of chocolate that he named “Hershey’s Kiss”. At first, each was wrapped by hand in a square of aluminum foil. The introduction of machine wrapping in 1921 sped up the process and added a small paper ribbon to the top of the package, indicating that it was a genuine Hershey product. Harry Burnett Reese invented Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups after founding the H. Labor unrest came to Hershey in the late 1930s, as a Congress of Industrial Organizations-backed union attempted to organize the factory workers.

Shortly before World War II, Bruce Murrie, son of long-time Hershey’s president William F. In 1969, Hershey received a license from Rowntree’s to manufacture and market Kit Kat and Rolo in the United States. After Hershey’s competitor Nestlé acquired Rowntree’s in 1988, it was still required to honor the agreement, and so Hershey continues to make and market the products in the U. In 2015, they sued a British importer to halt imports of British Cadbury chocolate, which reportedly angered consumers. S Candies, founded in 1845, and became the makers of Twizzlers licorice candies. In 1986, Hershey’s made a brief foray into cough drops when it acquired the Luden’s cough drops brand.

In 1996, Hershey purchased the American operations of the Leaf Candy Company from Huhtamäki. On July 25, 2002, it became known that the Hershey Trust Company was seeking to sell its controlling interest in the Hershey Foods Corporation. Over the following 55 days, widespread press coverage, as well as pressure from Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher, the community of Hershey, and Dauphin County Orphans’ Court Senior Judge Warren G. Morgan, led to the sale being abandoned. In December 2004, Hershey acquired the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp.