Stock Report: Hershey Co. (HSY) Report Updated: Nov 16, 2009  |  Print This Page

The Hershey Company engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing various chocolate and confectionery products, food and beverage enhancers, and gum and mint refreshment products. Its chocolate and confectionery products include chocolate bars and drinking cocoa mixes, high-cacao dark chocolate products, handcrafted chocolate gifts, and natural and organic chocolate products. The company’s snack products comprise snack mix, cookies, granola bars, and macadamia snack nuts and cookies in various varieties. In addition, The Hershey offers a line of refreshment products, such as mints and chewing gums; and a line of food and beverage enhancers, including baking products, toppings and sundae syrups, and hot cocoa mixes. The company sells its products through sales representatives and food brokers, primarily to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, department stores, and natural food stores. The Hershey also has license for Van Houten brand name and related trademarks in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Australia/New Zealand for consumer products. It principally operates in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, India, and China; and markets confectionery products worldwide. The company was founded in 1893 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.