...The Hershey Chocolate Company Table of Contents Board of Directors 1 Introduction 2 Report 3 Financial Report Card 9 Annual Report Board of Directors Pamela Arway- Senior Advisor to Chairman and CEO of American Express Robert Cavanaugh- Managing Director of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners Charles Davis- CEO of Stone Point Capital, LLC James Nevels- Director of Tasty Baking Company Thomas Ridge- President and CEO of Ridge Global, LLC David Shedlarz- Vice President of Pfizer, Inc David West- President and CEO of The Hershey Company Leroy Zimmerman- Senior Counsel of Eckert, Seamans, Cherin, And Mellott, LLC The Hershey Company The Hershey Chocolate Company is one of the leading producers of chocolate and confectionary products. Hershey produces such chocolates as: the Hershey Kiss, Hershey Chocolate Bar, Mounds, Almond Joy, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat, and York Peppermint Patty. In this report we will give you the company’s mission, the description, the background and history, highlights of major news events, the SWOTS, their marketing strategy, their commitment to social responsibility, and the financial report card. Business 100 Project Amanda Milgim Ava Winckler Hossai Rahimpur Karen Montoya The Hershey Chocolate Company When you think of Hershey what is the first thing that comes to mind? Chocolate right? Right! Hershey is one of the largest and oldest producers...
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...The Hershey Company Worldwide Educators OR/5000 May 7, 2013 The Hershey Company Introduction The founder of the Hershey Company was Milton S. Hershey. He was raised in rural central Pennsylvania. Even though he lacked formal education and went nearly bankrupt by the time he was 30 years of age, Milton S. Hershey became one of the wealthiest men in the world. He started Lancaster Caramel Company in 1876, in Philadelphia, hiring about 1400 people, in his chocolate factory. By the time the year 1900 came in the picture Milton S. Hershey made 1 million dollars. This was the name before it was Hershey. Soon the Lancaster Caramel Company was shipping all over the U.S. and Europe. As time progressed on, Mr. Hershey opened a school for orphan boys called the Milton Hershey School; it has since opened its doors to girls as well. In 1918, Hershey transferred the bulk of his considerable wealth, including his ownership in the Hershey Chocolate Company and other enterprises, to the Hershey Trust to be held for the Hershey Industrial School. The Hershey’s Company many products to choose from such as Hershey’s milk chocolate bar, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kit Kat wafer bars, Hershey’s Kisses, Jolly Ranchers, Ice Breakers, and many more. These products are only, to name a few. Hershey does not only offer sweets to eat also offer job opportunities, or if one would like to be an investor in the company. Mission Statement Hershey’s considers their mission as...
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...Hershey Company Name University Abstract The Hershey Company introducing the world of chocolate examines the remarkable successes and failures of the company. They are the largest North American manufacturer of chocolate and sugar confectionery products in its constant pursuit to maintain growth and profitability in a competitive industry. Hershey Company has an array of chocolate and confectionery products, which includes candies, beverages, baking ingredients, gums, syrups, and toppings for ice cream. Hershey Company produces and maintains more than 80 different brands. Hershey chocolate bar is known as the “Great American Chocolate Bar,” which is produced by Hershey Company and was invented by Milton Hershey over a hundred years ago and its products are sold in sixty different countries. We will look at the history of the company, its good marketing plan to expand that allows them to be more profits and more world recognition. Hershey Company maintain its dominant position in the industry and where the company is going in the near future. Hershey Company Mission and Objective Vision The vision of The Hershey Company is—Continuing Milton Hershey’s legacy of commitment to consumers, community and children, we provide high-quality Hershey’s products while conducting our business in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable manner (The Hershey Company, n.d.). Mission Statement The mission of Hershey’s is encapsulated in the following words: Bringing...
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...The Hershey Company and CSR Challenge The Hershey Company is the leading North American manufacturer of chocolate confectionery (The Hershey, 2014). The company uses cocoa suppliers in West Africa, where the harvest type of child labour and human trafficking is exposed in the chocolate industry. Thousands of children are forced to engage in unsafe activities such as using machetes and carrying heavy loads. Therefore, the majorities have scars on their body (Nieburg O., 2014). Nearly two million children work illegally on cocoa farms. Children from the Western Africa start to work at a young age of 12 to help their families because of the intense poverty that surround them (Louv J., 2014). Decision-making models • Bounded Rationality In order to address the issue of child labour and to build sustainability in the community, Hershey Company should follow the Bounded Rationality style of decision- making. The rational decision making model is very effective in the cocoa farms as it’s based on the rational thinking in order to come up with the best potential results. It gives the possibility to find possible solutions to the child labour issue, to calculate the consequences of them and finally to choose the best option. There is a cycling through different choices until an applicable one is found (Cioran N.A., 2013). • Varoom and Yetton’s Leadership On the other side, referring to the Varoom and Yetton’s Leadership and Decision-making (1973), it also can be an...
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...Hershey Company Weaknesses in the Product Life Cycle There are a couple of weaknesses in the product life cycle of Hershey. To begin with, candy sales are being lowered by health and wellness trends, which are not only a weakness for Hershey, but the entire chocolate and candy industries as a whole. In addition to that, Hershey has had price inflation for their products. There has been an increase in consumer consciousness when it comes to the health risks related to foods with high sugar and salt products as well as high-fat and cholesterol foods. Consumers are giving more attention to the product labels of the items they purchase and are choosing to purchase the healthiest products available. When it comes to price inflation, rising costs have been a principally tough challenge for the company. The raw material costs having to do with producing a basic milk chocolate bar weighing 3.5 ounces or 100 grams, has soared 28 percent. Hershey’s has been susceptible to market price increases of key ingredients like cocoa, milk, sugar and peanuts, which all have seen increasing prices. The price of cocoa butter, which makes up about a fourth of each chocolate bar, has risen 63 percent in the last 2 years, reaching a four-year high. Whole milk powder, which is another major part, has risen above 20 percent (Tidy, 2013). In order for the company to fight the rising costs, they would need to both raise domestic wholesale prices and lower product weight. The rising price of...
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...CONSUMER INTERNET Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. – U.S. Equity Research February 4, 2008 Rating Information Sector Rating Target Price YE ’08 Long-Term Growth Market Weight 26.23% (YHOO-$28.38-Outperform) MicroHoo!: Where are We Now & Where Do We Go From Here? Trading Data 52-Wk Range Market Cap. Shares Out. Dividend Yield Avg Daily Vol. Float Yahoo! Corp. $18.58 - $34.08 $25,459 MM 1,336.4 MM 0.0% 27,140,000 NA Source: FactSet It’s not often that management of a company sees its stock skyrocket ~50% in one day and have to ask themselves “Is this the best day in company history or the worst?” We believe Yahoo!'s valuation has being hampered by near-term investment concerns which weighed on investor realization of the long-term potential and value of the company. As we pointed out in our 4Q earnings note, we thought the near-term investor disappointment created an opportunity for any suitor that was remotely serious. Fundamental Data EV/EBITDA Enterprise Value LT Debt to Total Cap. Book Value 16.4x $24,681.6 MM 0.0% $7.00 • Implications to Traffic and Search Market Share. Domestically, Yahoo! and MSN together command 11% in page views market share, more than double Google’s 5% market share. In the international market, however, Yahoo! and MSN jointly account for 8% of total page views, still slightly lower than Google at 9%. On Search, the combination of Yahoo! and MSN would represent 33% of query market share in the...
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...The Hershey Foods Corporation commonly called Hershey's, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America as well as the oldest. Milton Snavely Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia, which failed after six years. After trying unsuccessfully to manufacture candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful (Hershey). In 1900, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000(Hershey). 1903, Hershey began construction of a chocolate plant in his hometown which later was named after him. The milk chocolate bars manufactured at this plant proved successful, and the company grew rapidly thereafter (Hershey). While his company was successfully selling sweet chocolate products, Milton Hershey knew that going down the path of creating and selling milk chocolate products would be better. Milton built a milk-processing plant in the year 1896, to be able to create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies (Hershey). In 1899, three years later, he developed his own way of making milk chocolate called the Hershey process (Hershey). In 1907, Hershey introduced "Hershey's Kisses", which were initially individually wrapped by hand in squares of foil, and the introduction of machine wrapping in 1921 made the process easier while adding the small paper ribbon to the top of the package to indicate that it was a genuine Hershey product (Hershey). The product was trademarked...
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...Barrett HRM 500 January 27, 2013 Assignment 1: Hershey’s Sweet Mission Hershey Chocolate Company is the largest chocolate supplier in North America. Since 1894 its rich history, Hershey has created various products that has provided the company the ability to meet and exceed the desires and needs of stakeholders-consumers, employees and business partners. Hershey’s mission statement has been quite simple and straight forward, “Bringing sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world every day.”(Noe/Hollenbeck/Gerhart/Wright) This paper will discuss the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups, analyze how you would interpret the values that Hershey embraces, the trends that may impact Hershey the most, and what the effects that mentoring could have on integrating values into the Hershey culture. The redesign of Hershey’s performance management system Hershey’s four identified values demonstrate that the organization has a plan of action in place in order to meet and exceed the expectations of the employees. It is imperative for any organization, but more importantly those that are large corporations to have a standard guideline of what employees should expect. Hershey’s new redesign plan is set to appeal towards the younger generation. Although this appears like a great idea, how does this assist in appealing to the more tenured crowd? I would recommend Hershey to take a survey or suggestion from all employees on how they would like...
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...sought out to ensure what’s best for not just the company but the consumer as well. Marketing: This Is Just the Beginning Introduction In the beginning there was milk, sugar and cocoa; these three main items combined were the beginning of an empire. With this empire comes a long laundry list of marketing strategies that helped get a company known as Hershey to the top of the list when it comes to candy manufacturers. Market Force 1: Description and Analysis of impact on product/service Milk, Sugar, Cocoa and the Cost of It All. Product cost of these particular items tends to increase consistently. In order to keep the ability to sell the product the companies have to ensure that they remain competitive. Despite that Hershey obtains their cocoa from across seas it appears to becoming harder for the company to produce the chocolate at the price that it was being produced at just over a year ago. In results, Hershey decided to make the weight of the candy bar lighter while keeping the price the same. Of course in this day and time remaining competitive isn’t exactly easy. Consumers may begin to fear that because of this, the taste of the candy may begin to suffer. Market Force 2: Description and Analysis of impact on product/service Distribution Cost If a company can figure out how to keep the cost of distribution to a minimum the product will become easier to get out to the consumers. This means that Hershey will have to locate other options that are cheaper...
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...Hershey’s Sweet Mission The Hershey Company is the number one chocolate and non- chocolate confectionary manufacturer in North America (www.datamonitor.com). Founded in 1894 by Milton Hershey, the Hershey Company has managed to withstand the ever changing economy and manage its workforce in a way that has resulted in extreme success. Companies often undergo organizational restructure as a means to keep up with today’s shifting workforce and in an effort to attract and maintain the best talent. Especially in the United States, which is now being considered the world’s melting pot, the workforce is becoming much more diverse and great effort is required to address these changes. This paper discusses recommendations for the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system in order to appeal to its diverse workforce. Also discussed is how an employee would interpret the Hershey Company’s values in relation to their role. Workforce trends will be examined and how they could impact Hershey. Finally, the mentoring program that Hershey has implemented will be discussed along with the effects that this program has on integrating the culture at the Hershey Company. Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance manageir ment system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. A performance management system is a system put into place that makes certain that the employees’ outputs and activities align with the goals of the company or organization (Noe et al, 2011)...
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...Abstract This paper analyzes the case, Hershey Aligns Training With Strategy as referenced by Blanchard and Thacker (2013). The key focus will outline the correlation between organizational development and HRD. Keywords: organizational development, human resource development (HRD) Case Analysis: Hershey Aligns Training with Strategy The Hershey Company, headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania is a leading North American manufacturer of chocolate and confectionary grocery goods. Hershey currently sits on the Fortune 500 and operates in over ninety countries. In 2014, Hershey's earnings exceeded 7.4 billion dollars. Although today, Hershey is an international manufacturing powerhouse, back in 1982 their future was not very optimistic; in fact, Hershey was on the verge of being sold. Hershey realized in order to increase their revenue and create a sustainable company, major changes needed to be made. Hershey focused their efforts on analyzing and fixing their distributor marketing strategy (which included its trade funding allocations). This case analyzes Hershey's trade funding strategy as (outlined by their senior leadership) and the steps they took to improve this program. A Proactive Hershey When senior executives at Hershey realized their current trade funding program did not best serve their distributor's needs, they immediately looked for opportunities to improve upon their business relationships, sales, and accountability held with them. By utilizing...
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...“Hershey’s Sweet Mission” Instructor: Matthew Gonzalez Course: Human Resource Management Foundation Date: April 19, 2012 Abstract In my formal research I will recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. I will analyze how I would interpret the values that Hershey embraces in relation to my role, if I were a Hershey employee. My research will also discuss the trends identified in the chapter and describe which one may impact Hershey the most. Lastly, I will describe the effects that mentoring could have on integrating values into the Hershey culture. Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. Because Hershey’s employs such diverse groups it could benefit from knowledge workers. Organizations need a management style that focuses on developing and empowering employees. (Noe, 2011) Knowledge workers are employees whose key contribution to the organization is specialized knowledge, such as knowledge of customers, a process or a profession. Employees are then held accountable for products and services, and in return share losses and rewards. (Noe, 2011) When an organization competes for employees, depend on skilled knowledge workers, or are in need of a workforce that cares about customer’s satisfaction...
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...As Milton Hershey was and still one of the greatest chocolate makers of all time, Milton never really had much success. Milton’s father was Hilton Hershey and his mother was Fanny Snavely Hershey. Hershey gained his entrepreneur spirit from his father who often moved the family. Hilton attempted many kinds business ventures, including farming and making cough drops. But Hershey’s schooling came to an end after he found interests in other things as of 2014. Milton was born September 13, 1857 on a farm right outside Derry Church, Pennsylvania. He only had one sibling, a sister named Serina who passed away from Scarlet fever when Milton was only nine years old. Milton started learning from his earlier mistakes in his life, and also told himself he would become successful. He was a dreamer....
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...I. The Hershey Company’s Background The Hershey Chocolate Company was first founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894 as a subsidiary of Lancaster Caramel Company. Hershey’s products are sold in sixty countries currently worldwide. Hershey currently employees roughly 13,000 employees. Hershey manufactures, distributes and sell a variety of chocolate and confectionery products, gum and mint products and pantry items. Hershey is one of the oldest chocolate companies currently in the United States and are well-known as an American icon for its chocolate bars. With this, Hershey’s has a competitive advantage in the market of the United States and continue to make strides in order to keep this advantage. (Hershey) Hershey’s vision statement is, “Continuing Milton Hershey’s legacy of commitment to consumers, community and children, we provide high-quality HERSHEY’S products while conducting our business in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable manner.” Hershey’s promotes its employees to follow the value that it stand by and the value is distributed into four categories: (Hershey) Environment: to minimize impact while meeting functional requirements Marketplace: to engage in an ethical and fair business dealings Community: to positively impact the local communities and society where we work and live Workplace: To foster a desirable workplace II. Take 5 Challenge After the initial launch of Hershey’s Take 5 in 2005, the candy bar was popular along candy bar...
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...In this week’s assignment we chose The Hershey Company, also known as Hershey’s, as our organization of interest. As a team we found the longevity and success of The Hershey Company intriguing, for this reason, we decided to research the operations of the organization. The founder of The Hershey Company, Milton Hershey, started his first candy business in 1876. In 1903, The Hershey Company broke ground on their first manufacturing factory Hershey’s, (n.d.). Today Hershey’s can be found in 90 countries all over the world (Hershey’s, n.d.). Over the years the company has expanded in many ways from the products they sell to manufacturing plants and locations. The paper will outline what process design (make to order, make to stock, or batch), The Hershey Company uses in the manufacturing of their products. We will identify two manufacturing processes that we found unique and interesting about The Hershey Company. As a global confectionary leader The Hershey Company’s best known of its eighty brands are Hershey’s, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kisses, Jolly Rancher and Twizzler’s licorice (Hershey’s, n.d.). The company has also expanded into other markets such as grocery goods, chocolate syrup, and breathe mints. Annual Revenue for the company is over $7.1 billion and over 13,000 employees staff its operations (PR Newswire, 2014). In 2012, Hershey built a new plant which operates with the latest technology 24 hours a day in its original home town with its same name. The...
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