Hershey

Hershey Beats Estimates On Chocolate Sales, Acquisition

Hershey Co. topped Wall Street's estimates for quarterly sales and profit on Thursday, driven by demand for its chocolates and revenue from a recently acqu...

Food Giants Nestlé, Hershey At Odds With Farmers Over GMO Labelling

The world's top food companies and farmers of crops such as beet sugar are pitted against each other as they lobby the U.S. government over plans to label...

Hershey Plunges As Sluggish US Candy Sales Weigh Down Earnings

Hershey plunged the most in more than a year after its quarterly sales and profit missed analyst estimates, weighed down by poor performance in the pivotal...

The A-Z of Retail: H Is For Hershey

ESM: European Supermarket Magazine is proud to launch 'The A-Z of Retail', a new subscriber-only series that offers a deep analysis of the retailers, suppl...

A Sweet Deal? Ferrero's Nestlé Purchase Signals Shift In US Candy Market

After months of talks and speculation, Nestlé has agreed to sell its US confectionery unit to Nutella-maker Ferrero for $2.8 billion. This is a b...

Race To Acquire Nestlé's US Confectionery Business Continues

The battle for Nestlé's US confectionery business is ongoing, with a number of companies said to have made bids for the candy unit in recent days....

Campbell, Hershey Bet That Salty Snacks Will Reignite Slow Sales

In a packaged-food industry suffering from weak demand and shifting consumer tastes, there’s still one safe bet: salty snacks. Potato chips, popco...

Hershey To Buy Amplify Snack Brands For $1.6 Billion

Hershey is expanding further beyond chocolate, agreeing to buy the owner of Tyrrell’s potato chips and SkinnyPop popcorn for $1.6 billion, including...