The Hershey Company

Hershey, PA United States

  (NYSE: HSY)

Company Description

The Hershey Company will cover you in Kisses and bring you Almond Joy. The company makes such well-known chocolate and candy brands as Hershey's Kisses, Reese's peanut butter cups, Twizzlers licorice, Mounds candy bars, York Peppermint Patty, and Kit Kat (licensed from Nestlé). Hershey also makes grocery goods, including baking chocolate, ice-cream toppings, chocolate syrup, cocoa mix, cookies, snack nuts, hard candies, and lollipops. Products from the chocolate purveyor are sold throughout North America and exported overseas. The Hershey Trust -- which benefits the Milton Hershey School for disadvantaged children -- controls approximately 80% of Hershey's voting power.