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Workers From Hershey Scandal Win Big Backpay

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2012 | Business

Foreign students who claimed they toiled under abusive conditions at a Pennsylvania plant handling Hershey candies last year have won over $200,000 in...

Hershey's Announces Big Change To Chocolate Sourcing

AP | RON TODT | Posted 10.04.2012 | Home

PHILADELPHIA -- Candy maker Hershey is vowing to use only certified cocoa for all of its chocolate products by 2020 and accelerate programs to help el...

PHOTOS: Great American Factory Tours

Malerie Yolen-Cohen | Posted 11.24.2012 | Travel
Malerie Yolen-Cohen

Whether you've watched Americans make potato chips or Mack Trucks -- you'll come away with a greater appreciation for the businesses and objects our countrymen are capable of building.

Hershey's Not as Sweet as We Thought

David Macaray | Posted 04.29.2012 | Business
David Macaray

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?

Hershey's Takes First Steps To Address Child Labor

The Huffington Post | Carey Polis | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home

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...

Food of the Gods

Kwei Quartey | Posted 02.05.2012 | Impact
Kwei Quartey

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.

The Best-Tasting Milk Chocolate is Crowned

Kitchen Daily | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

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...

Taste Test: Which Dark Chocolate Reigns Supreme?

Kitchen Daily | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

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...

Foreign Students Protesting At Hershey's Factory Reject Trip

AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 10.20.2011 | College

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Companies involved in employing foreign students who walked off their jobs in protest at a facility that serves the Hershey ch...

Foreign Students Protest Working Conditions At Hershey Warehouse

AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 10.18.2011 | Impact

HERSHEY, Pa. — Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlig...

Hershey's Air Delight: Candymaker Launches New Aerated Milk Chocolate

Posted 08.07.2011 | Home

Hershey's has recently debuted a new riff on its chocolate bars and kisses: aerated chocolate. "Your taste buds have never experienced chocolate bubbl...

Why I am Marching at Hershey's Store in Times Square

Ariana Taveras | Posted 08.06.2011 | Home
Ariana Taveras

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.

PHOTOS: 9 Killer Brands Launched During Downturns

The Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman and Nicole Hardesty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

Eco Etiquette: 10 Tips For A Green Halloween

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jennifer Grayson

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.

Only in America: Candy Maker to Sponsor Our Dietary Advice

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Hemi Weingarten

The American Dietetic Association announced yesterday that it has inked a partnership with Hershey Company. The exact sum of the sponsorship was not disclosed.

Five Feng Shui Ways To Make Your Halloween A Real Treat

Ellen Whitehurst | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Ellen Whitehurst

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.

Do a Good Deed in 10 Minutes Flat

Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lisa Honig Buksbaum

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.

Hershey's Profit Rises On Lower Costs, Higher Prices, Ad Push

AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hershey, the nation's second-biggest candy maker, said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter sales and profits rose, helped by dropp...

Green Your Amusement Park Visit

Maura Judkis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Maura Judkis

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.

Re-Heat Offender: Cindy Bakes Another Whopper

David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Weiner

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.

I Want Candy...And Would Kill For A Fix

236.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

Hersheys Replaces Eight Of Its 11 Board Members

Bloomberg | Bob Ivry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Hershey Co., the U.S. chocolate maker whose chief executive officer resigned last month, replaced eight of its 11 board members with directors elected...

Hershey Chief To Step Down From Chocolate Co

Wall Street Journal | Julie Jargon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...