For one, what sort of "international cultural exchange program" involves the participants doing manual labor in a factory? What is so "culturally" beneficial about lifting cases of Kit-Kats on the graveyard shift at a Hershey plant?
The Huffington Post | Carey Polis | Posted 02.01.2012
Reports of Hershey's using child labor in its cocoa fields have been widespread, and the publicity hasn't been kind. In the past year, the Raise The B...
Kwei Quartey | Posted 02.05.2012
Sub-Saharan Africa produces 70-74 percent of the world's cocoa beans. Should anything wipe out the cocoa crop from either of these producer nations, there is no other country that could quickly take up the slack.
Kitchen Daily | Posted 05.18.2012
Listen up, chocoholics. In search of the best of the best milk chocolate bar, we decided to put 30-plus different kinds to the test. We scored the bar...
Kitchen Daily | Posted 11.29.2011
After finding the best milk chocolates in one of our most popular taste tests, our editors thought it only fair to find the best dark chocolates on th...
AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 10.20.2011
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Companies involved in employing foreign students who walked off their jobs in protest at a facility that serves the Hershey ch...
AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 10.18.2011
HERSHEY, Pa. — Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlig...
Posted 08.07.2011
Hershey's has recently debuted a new riff on its chocolate bars and kisses: aerated chocolate. "Your taste buds have never experienced chocolate bubbl...
Ariana Taveras | Posted 08.06.2011
Hershey needs to catch up with its competitors in instituting actual cocoa purchasing policies that reduce Hershey's connection to child labor, forced labor and trafficking. It is time to get serious.
The Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman and Nicole Hardesty | Posted 05.25.2011
History shows that it's often during dips in the business cycle, when companies are failing in droves and the economy is rife with uncertainty, that b...
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011
With a few simple swaps you can guard the health of the planet and your little ones (and your own, if you're still a kid at heart) without sacrificing a ghoulish good time. Here are my top 10 tips for a green Halloween.
Hemi Weingarten | Posted 05.25.2011
The American Dietetic Association announced yesterday that it has inked a partnership with Hershey Company. The exact sum of the sponsorship was not disclosed.
Ellen Whitehurst | Posted 11.17.2011
With all this potential for misbegotten magic hanging heavily in the autumn air, Halloween is the perfect time to offer a big amount of protection to our littlest Hershey's hustlers.
Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 11.17.2011
If 10,000 of you will open your hearts and invest 10 minutes your time to complete this survey, Soaringwords will receive a $35,000 grant from Hershey's to help our cause.
AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 05.25.2011
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hershey, the nation's second-biggest candy maker, said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter sales and profits rose, helped by dropp...
Maura Judkis | Posted 05.25.2011
Noticing the garbage cans full of disposable plastic products and the massive amounts of energy required to power coasters made me wonder what green initiatives amusement parks had to offer. The answer: very few.
David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Cindy McCain is up to her old tricks. Her recipe for oatmeal-butterscotch cookies featured in the latest issue of Family Circle magazine is identical to a recipe on Hersheys.com.
236.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Hershey's Ice Breakers Pacs, powdered candy in pouches resembling the packets used by drug dealers, has been yanked from the shelves after only two mo...
Bloomberg | Bob Ivry | Posted 05.25.2011
Hershey Co., the U.S. chocolate maker whose chief executive officer resigned last month, replaced eight of its 11 board members with directors elected...
Wall Street Journal | Julie Jargon | Posted 05.25.2011
Hershey Co. chief executive Richard Lenny is stepping down from the chocolate company. Mr. Lenny, 55 years old, is said to be frustrated with the tru...
David Macaray | Posted 04.29.2012