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Hershey

COMPANY

Founded in 1894 by Milton Hershey as the Hershey Chocolate Co. Acquired H. B. Reese Candy Company in 1963, Peter Paul and Cadbury in 1988. Products include Almond Joy candy bars, Bar None Wafer Bars, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Carefree sugarless gum, 5th Avenue bars, Good & Plenty, Hershey's Bars, Hershey's Syrups, Ice Breakers, Jolly Ranchers, Kisses, Kit Kats, Krackel Chocolate Bar, Life Savers, Luden's Throat Drops, Mello Mints, Milk Duds, Mr Goodbar, Mounds bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Reese's NutRageous, Reese's Pieces, Rolo Caramels, Skors, Twizzlers, Whatchamacallit bars, and Whoppers.

Official Website:
http://www.hersheys.com/

Industry:
Food

Ticker:
NYSE:HSY

Corporate headquarters:
Hershey, PA

Sales:
$4.4B (2004)

Employees:
16,000 (2004)

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Milton Hershey
Business
13-Sep-1857 13-Oct-1945 Founder of Hershey's
Richard H. Lenny
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Hershey, 2001-07
Joseph P. Viviano
Business
c. 1937   Vice Chairman of Hershey, 1999-2000
David J. West
Business
c. 1964   CEO of Del Monte
Kenneth L. Wolfe
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Hershey, 1994-2001

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert F. Cavanaugh
Business
c. 1959   DLJ Capital Partners
Charles A. Davis
Business
c. 1949   Vice Chairman of Marsh & McLennan, 1999-2004
Arnold G. Langbo
Business
c. 1938   CEO of Kellogg, 1990-2000
Tom Ridge
Politician
26-Aug-1945   US Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-04
Charles B. Strauss
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Unilever USA, 2000-04
Kenneth L. Wolfe
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Hershey, 1994-2001

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jon A. Boscia
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Lincoln National, 1998-2007
Robert H. Campbell
Business
c. 1937   CEO of Sunoco, 1991-2000
Gary P. Coughlan
Business
c. 1944   CFO of Abbott Laboratories, 1990-2001
Harriet Edelman
Business
c. 1955   Senior VP at Avon, 2000-08
Bonnie G. Hill
Business
30-Oct-1941   VP of Times Mirror Co., 1997-2001
Alfred F. Kelly, Jr.
Business
c. 1959   Group President at American Express
Edward J. Kelly III
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Mercantile Bankshares, 2001-07
Richard H. Lenny
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Hershey, 2001-07
Allan Z. Loren
Business
c. 1938   CEO of Dun & Bradstreet, 2000-05
Mackey J. McDonald
Business
1-Nov-1946   CEO of VF Corporation, 1996-2008
Francine I. Neff
Government
6-Dec-1925 9-Feb-2010 US Treasurer, 1974-77
Marie J. Toulantis
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Barnes & Noble Website
Joseph P. Viviano
Business
c. 1937   Vice Chairman of Hershey, 1999-2000
David J. West
Business
c. 1964   CEO of Del Monte

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
H. B. Reese
Business
24-May-1879 16-May-1956 Peanut butter cups

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jim Levy
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Activision, 1979-86

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Fabrice Morvan
Dancer
16-May-1966   Half of Milli Vanilli
Rob Pilatus
Dancer
8-Jun-1965 2-Apr-1998 Troubled half of Milli Vanilli


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