How Hershey is Working Toward a More Resilient and Sustainable Future

As the most-watched program in America, the Big Game offers an unmatched moment to tap into culture and connect with millions of fans. Reese’s is going all-in for the second consecutive year – bringing its signature humor, passionate fandom, and an unforgettable ad to make Reese’s Choc...

Vanilla, the newest KIT KAT® bar flavor, showcases the brand’s commitment to delivering both fan-favorite and new flavors that engage consumers and drive long-term retail success.

Shaq-A-Licious XL Gummies Provides a Case Study for How Working with Celebrity Brands Can Elevate a Product

Leveraging the power of innovation and mind-bending experiences, Ice Breakers launches its new Flavor Shifters gum as part of its commitment to bring more innovation to the gum category post-pandemic.

Retailers can drive success by creating memorable Halloween shopping experiences.

Since our founding 130 years ago, Hershey has continued work to expand the education system in cocoa-farming communities in West Africa.

Since our founding 130 years ago, Hershey has supplied chocolate lovers with moments of goodness from our iconic treats.

As the countdown to Paris begins, The Hershey Company is ready to help fans cheer on Team USA with limited-edition treats across our Reese’s, Ice Breakers and Hershey’s Kisses brands.

The brand’s new “Freedom to Snack” campaign reinforces its endlessly delicious products, offering a snacking experience that only SkinnyPop popcorn can deliver.

Hershey chocolate scientist, Allison Brown, PhD, volunteered to help cacao farmers and business owners in Trinidad and Tobago maximize the value of their crops.

Heading into the Final Four, consumers are reaching for salty, sweet and easy-to-prep snacks according to a poll from Hershey’s Consumer Insights team. As the official Candy, Pretzel and Popcorn Partner of NCAA Basketball, Hershey is excited to deliver delicious flavors to get fans out of the kitche...

In honor of Women’s History Month, women leaders in manufacturing talk about their work at Hershey and why they love it.

Hershey’s Consumer Insights team polled shoppers about Easter and the results are in: shoppers are excited and plan to celebrate by buying Easter candy, decorating eggs, making Easter baskets, baking and participating in other fun, seasonal activities.

This International Day of Forests, we recognize the importance of trees to the long-term sustainability of our business and the partners who work with us to take steps to do the right thing for our planet.

It's Women's History Month and International Women's Day, and we are honoring the women of today and tomorrow.

Vinny Rinaldi, head of media and analytics at The Hershey Company, appeared at CES, a global stage for innovation, to discuss how AI is enabling a reset in the marketing industry.

As the most-watched program in America, the big game offers one of the greatest opportunities of the year to reach the most consumers at once, and Hershey is going all in with its latest Reese’s ad.

Insights on our initiatives to spearhead innovation and growth within the better-for-you sweets and snacks category

The big game is coming and consumers are excited to gather together, cheer on their favorite team, and savor sweet and salty snacks.

Hershey’s Consumer Insights team has released the company’s 2024 consumer behavior predictions, which focus on friends and family, an emphasis on health and wellness and an ongoing search for value.

The launch of the innovative Reese’s Caramel Big Cup is accompanied by equally innovative technologies—augmented reality and image recognition—to help retail partners drive sales.

After being named Rising Stars in the 2023 Top Women in Grocery program, Hershey honorees share advice business leaders can use.

Consumers are counting down the days until the holidays, and they plan to celebrate in several ways.

By collecting insights year-round, Hershey is continually working to understand how consumers are celebrating Halloween. For the company’s biggest holiday of the year, the planning never stops.

The Helping Hands program pairs Hershey non-retail employees with retail team members to support them in stores during the busy Halloween season. Often, participants walk away with a deeper appreciation for Hershey’s purpose.

This year, consumers are extra excited about Halloween and plan to celebrate in several ways.

Robots at The Hershey Company are building made-to-order merchandising displays that allow retailers to customize the type and volume of candy brands to showcase.

The Hershey Company leverages its retail design services to help retailers boost shopper excitement—and sales.

With self-checkout lanes on the rise, Hershey is helping retailers design the optimal queue.

Hershey is building its first new U.S. chocolate manufacturing facility in more than three decades. When it opens in mid-2024, the facility will employ about 125 people and increase production and flexibility for many of Hershey’s chocolate brands.

For 50 years, HERSHEY’S CHOCOLATE WORLD has welcomed visitors to experience their favorite brands in new and surprising ways while making treasured memories along the way.

For more than a decade, Hershey has partnered with Cargill to keep tens of thousands of pounds of chocolate waste out of landfills every year by transforming it into a nutrition-packed “candy meal” to help feed cows, pigs and other animals.

Memphis Music Initiative’s Executive Director, Amber Hamilton, on empowering young Black artists

The first-ever ad for Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels aims to introduce new consumers to the buttery, savory spindles, while letting devoted fans they’re not alone in their obsessive love for the snack.

Hershey offers consumers a variety of snacking choices with its expanded sweet and salty better-for-you portfolio to meet new trends and preferences.

Every June, Black Music Month celebrates the contributions of Black musicians. This year, KIT KAT® is partnering with music-centered youth development non-profits in six cities, and showcasing Black-music-inspired artwork from those cities on limited-edition wrappers.

Meet The Hershey Company’s four-legged friends – pups in training to be service dogs for children and adults with disabilities.

Alicia Petross highlights how KIT KAT® is expanding its Black Music Month program to celebrate the impact of Black music and art on American culture and support youth

As a member of Full Circle, the first all-Black team to climb Mount Everest, Eddie Taylor encourages everyone to leave their comfort zones—and get outdoors.

Our forward-thinking approach, commitment to customer needs, the hard work of our make and sell teams and being stronger together have helped us make more moments of goodness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hershey Company hosted an Investor Day to provide an update on strategic plans and financial outlook.

Collaborators behind the new Reese's ice cream and frozen treats reflect on the strategy to elevate our #1 brand in the freezer aisle.

For the second consecutive year, Hershey partners with the nonprofit Girls on the Run to celebrate women and girls.

Hershey's retail team reflects a unique approach to fueling a talent pipeline and company growth.

What It’s Like to Refresh a nearly 130-year-old Brand, and Win an Award for It

The Hershey Company’s David Nolen, VP National Category Management, and Erica Norton, Sr Director of Consumer Insights, reflect on their presentation at the Numeration ’22 conference and how Hershey leverages data to understand consumer sentiment and behaviors to drive business growth.

Hershey celebrates National Organization on Disability’s 40th anniversary and being recognized as a 2022 Leading Disability Employer.

In August, 36 Hershey team members travelled from India, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and across the U.S. to Hershey, Pennsylvania to participate in a three-day leadership program. Through the new Developmental Potential Program, Hershey is developing leaders from within.

From REESE'S Miniatures to REESE'S Big Cup with Potato Chips, the beloved peanut butter cup is a natural for innovation. And deep consumer insights go into every new iteration.

The Asian & Pacific Islander (API) Business Resource Group hosted Tony Palmer, a member of the Hershey Board of Directors, on career growth and mentorship.

Our pledge to invest half a billion dollars in these communities by 2030 is translating to meaningful results on the ground, helping to keep children in school, helping to diversify and increase incomes, giving farmers the support to build thriving businesses and protecting forests.

As part of our holistic diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, The Pathways Project, supplier diversity is key to delivering our Pathways to Join pillar and driving a wider range of perspectives.

In Hershey’s 2021 ESG report, an expanded DEI section reflects our intentional progress and goals to make Hershey even more diverse and inclusive.

The 2021 ESG (environmental, social and governance) Report marks the evolution of our sustainability strategy as we more fully integrate our priorities into business operations.

As part of our enterprise science-based targets, employees in our Hershey manufacturing plant in São Roque, Brazil found innovative ways to create change and reduce emissions.

Leaders from Hershey, Girls on the Run and Girl Up on mentorship, leadership and empowerment

How The Hershey Company and Project Peanut Butter's Energize Learning Project Contributes to Children's Access to Nutrition and The Fight Against Child Labour

Our international initiatives to bolster and celebrate women – on International Women’s Day and beyond.

The Hershey’s brand is celebrating the central role that women and girls play in our lives through the nation-wide launch of limited-edition Celebrate SHE bars.

Here at Hershey, we’ve long been on a journey to make our workplace more diverse and inclusive. This Black History Month, we’re continuing to celebrate and educate with meaningful conversations for long-lasting change.

Working with consumers, we've created sleek new packaging that makes it easier for families to share and store their favorite brands.

As a child, Lunar New Year was an important part of my family’s celebration of togetherness and gratitude. Now, as a mother myself, I see my son celebrating that same goodness in our own Lunar New Year traditions.

Hershey's manufacturing teams are at the heart of making moments of goodness with our brands possible.

Hershey recognized as one of America’s Most JUST Companies for the third consecutive year.

Reese’s University is a brand-new initiative that wraps the spirit of college around the No. 1 selling candy brand in the United States.

In 2021, we continued to work diligently to uphold and advance essential human rights across our value chain through furthering progress on cocoa, promoting human rights within and beyond our four walls and collaborating with industry partners to advance our living wage and income agendas.

We've re-opened our Global Customer Insights Center (GCIC), to collaborate with customers to develop strategic plans and devise growth initiatives built from our unique consumer insights.

Leaving a small town to join the U.S. Marine Corps was a transformative experience—not only in leaving as a Marine, but in observing the strength that comes from our differences and appreciating the impact to be made as a team member.

Hershey employees around the world are proud to be named #1 on the list of the World’s Top Female Friendly Companies because of the intentional actions we took to get here.

SkinnyPop is one of the fastest growing salty snacks. We’re doing it by following a simple formula that focuses on knowing our consumer, and building a culture around delicious and permissible snack.

Caring for the planet is something I care deeply about. In the role of Manager of Environmental Sustainability at Hershey, I'm able to drive how Hershey is reducing its environmental impact and engage with passionate employees across the business who come together for the environment.

At Hershey, we take pride in our ability to offer high-quality and great-tasting candy that's accessible for everyone. We see an exciting opportunity to expand our expertise, build further capabilities and deliver even more choices in BFY confection through our research into rare and natural sugars.

We're taking Halloween lovers to Hershey for a four-part series with Food Network, "Chocolate Meltdown: Hershey's After Dark." The show creates new connections with consumers as they watch pastry chefs experience all that Hershey has to offer and get creative with their favorite Hershey candy.

September 13, 2021 would have been Milton S. Hershey's 164th birthday. Today, Hershey employees around the world live his legacy of doing well by doing good.

After releasing organic versions of our Hershey’s and Reese’s chocolate products, we’re testing a move into the plant-based segment — which we find to be one of the fastest growing better-for-you segments.

Halloween is one of our favorite seasons at Hershey. Our consumer research shows that Halloween is growing more beloved each year. We're here to help Halloween fans make more moments of goodness this season with cherished treats.

During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, The Hershey Company API Business Resource Group hosted a learning and development series, called Investing in your Growth. The series featured AAPI leaders from across the company.

In 2020, we co-created The Pathways Project with employees and set ambitious DEI goals to hold ourselves accountable to creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace.

Many consumers used increased time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to start new hobbies, like baking. Approximately 30% of consumers reported acquiring new baking skills during the pandemic.

To commemorate Human Rights Day, Hershey releases it's updated Living Wage and Income Position Statement. The company continues to prioritize living wage and income to advance human rights throughout its value chain.

A year ago Hershey introduced our Science Based Target in an effort to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. We are thrilled to announce that we have not only kept our commitment to this goal, but we have made progress towards creating a more green and sustainable environment.

We were challenged in 2020 to help our employees and communities in new ways. We were led by our purpose and values to step up where our communities needed us.

The relationships that we have with our customers is the secret sauce to our mutual success. Ed Mack and his company, Cruisin Coffee, is just one example of how we value our customers and consumers. Ed Mack has partnered with the Hershey Foodservice team for more than four years through his drive-th...

As COVID-19 cases spiked and consumers spent more time at home, families turned to S'mores for moments of goodness. With a holistic marketing strategy and dedicated team members, we delivered record breaking amounts of S'mores six-packs when they were needed most.

It's the little things and little moments that can have the largest impact. At Hershey, we are thrilled to support youth as they prepare create change and spark connection in their communities.

For Ann, her love for the environment started as a child. Now as a member of the Hershey Green Teams, she is key help achieve our ambitious environmental commitments.

Cocoa is paramount in creating Hershey's chocolate. We believe in not only sustainably sourcing the cocoa we use, but partnering with growers, governments and other companies to create a more sustainable cocoa supply chain.

As we reflect on Women's History Month at Hershey, we are reminded at how far we've come and how much more there is to do.

During the COVID-19 pandemic we felt the loss of cherished traditions, but found new ways to celebrate. In 2021, Reese's engaged with consumers and sports fans in new ways during March Madness as the "Official Candy Partner of the NCAA®."

We take our commitments to protect the environment very seriously. Hershey doesn’t just stop at announcing a new set of sustainability goals—we put in the work to deliver on our promises.

We believe that everyone has the power to make an impact. An event hosted by Hershey's African American Business Resource Group challenged and inspired employees to feel confident in their power and influence as individual contributors.

As consumer needs change, it's our job to meet them where they are. We are expanding our snacking portfolio to include more better-for-you snacks. From zero sugar to organic, we are working to ensure that everyone has something good to snack on.

Our 2023 ESG Report highlights progress and challenges as we integrate sustainability further into our business operations.

Hershey celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and all that he did to create a more diverse and inclusive world. We know the importance of continuing the work that Dr. King started and are committed to doing our part to create more diverse and inclusive communities.

Easter 2021 marks one year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consumers continue to find new ways to celebrate safely and look to our beloved products to help make more moments of goodness.

Hershey is proud to have a built a culture around mentorship and supporting one another. Read Serena's story about how her career at Hershey and her mentors led her to become a member of the National Confectioners Association's Future Leadership program.

As 2020 comes to an end, we're reminded of everything we learned. Looking to 2021, Hershey plans to continue bringing more moments of goodness to consumers in new and valuable ways.

A year after launching our enterprise human rights policy, we reflect on how Hershey and its people have risen to the occasion amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We remain steadfast in our commitment to protecting human rights.

2020 has reminded us of the importance of showing empathy to those around us. Hershey is proud to support youth around the world as they create change and spark connection in their communities.

At Hershey, we strive for excellence. We are thrilled that four employees have been recognized by Progressive Grocer as a part of their 2020 Top Women in Grocery Awards.

Chris is a Hershey employee and a strong advocate for individuals with disabilities. As a member of the Abilities First Business Resource Group and a person with a disability himself, Chris is proud to work at Hershey and helps to ensure that the company continues to support all employees.

There's no doubt that celebrating looked different in 2020, but Hershey and the Halloween & Costume Association are here to bring safe and healthy Halloween goodness to the world.

Here at Hershey, we run a community-centric and consumer-centric business. We strive to serve our diverse consumer and employee bases by celebrating meaningful occasions.

Now in its fourth year, our cocoa sustainability strategy, Cocoa for Good, is nourishing children, empowering youth, helping communities prosper and preserving ecosystems.

One of our company values is Making a Difference. Hershey's Latino Business Resource Group has embodied that philosophy by supporting the Latino Hispanic American Community Center for nine years and making a lasting impact on students in the Harrisburg, PA community.

We know the impact that our actions can have on our environment and our planet, which is why in January 2019, Hershey committed to the Science Based Target Initiative.

We're always finding new and unique ways to connect with consumers. Through licensing partnerships, we collaborate with brands, artists, and influencers to reach current and new consumers in creative ways.

Halloween was important in 2020 than ever before and consumers are looking to celebrate in new ways. Hershey is teaming up to make sure that there's just as much fun (and as many treats)!

Hershey has a history of leaning in, determining the needs of our communities and making a difference. We did it during the Great Depression and World War II and again in 2020 to produce disposable face masks.

Read the latest updates on operational changes in response to COVID-19. We continue to update this to reflect the most current information.

Memphis Music Initiative’s Executive Director, Amber Hamilton, on commitment and solidarity

Celebrating Black artists and supporting organizations to foster the next generation of creators in honor of Black Music Month

Hershey is building its first new U.S. chocolate factory in more than three decades. When it opens in mid-2024, the factory will employ about 125 people and increase production and flexibility for many of Hershey’s chocolate brands.

To commemorate Human Rights Day, Hershey releases it's updated Living Wage and Income Position Statement. The company continues to prioritize living wage and income to advance human rights throughout its value chain.

In response to years of evolving market dynamics, Hershey decided to put its planogram recommendations to the test. Through virtual and in-store trials, the results confirmed that the company's longstanding merchandising principles help continue to boost sales and drive profitability for retailers.