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Hershey Co
Hershey makes branded chocolate, candy, mints, and snack products. Its best-known names include Hershey’s, Reese’s, Kit Kat in the U.S., Kisses, Jolly Rancher, and Ice Breakers. The company sells these products through grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores, club stores, vending, and other food channels, mainly to everyday consumers buying treats and snacks. Hershey earns most of its money by selling packaged candy and snacks to retailers and distributors, who then sell them to shoppers. It also sells some products through its own direct and seasonal channels, especially around holidays when chocolate and candy demand is strong. A smaller part of the business comes from licensing and related brand activities. What makes Hershey’s business easy to understand is that it sits close to the consumer end of the food chain: it turns cocoa, sugar, milk, peanuts, and other ingredients into familiar branded snacks that people buy often and in small amounts. Its value comes from strong brand recognition, shelf space in stores, and repeat purchases tied to everyday snacking and seasonal occasions.
Hershey makes branded chocolate, candy, mints, and snack products. Its best-known names include Hershey’s, Reese’s, Kit Kat in the U.S., Kisses, Jolly Rancher, and Ice Breakers. The company sells these products through grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores, club stores, vending, and other food channels, mainly to everyday consumers buying treats and snacks.
Hershey earns most of its money by selling packaged candy and snacks to retailers and distributors, who then sell them to shoppers. It also sells some products through its own direct and seasonal channels, especially around holidays when chocolate and candy demand is strong. A smaller part of the business comes from licensing and related brand activities.
What makes Hershey’s business easy to understand is that it sits close to the consumer end of the food chain: it turns cocoa, sugar, milk, peanuts, and other ingredients into familiar branded snacks that people buy often and in small amounts. Its value comes from strong brand recognition, shelf space in stores, and repeat purchases tied to everyday snacking and seasonal occasions.
Strong start: Hershey said first-quarter results were strong and that it remains on track to meet its 2026 financial targets, with full-year outlook unchanged.
Sales growth: Net sales rose 10.6%, helped by pricing, the LesserEvil acquisition, and earlier shipments tied to timing, while organic, constant-currency net sales grew 7.9%.
Brand momentum: Management highlighted strong retail sales for Hershey's, Reese's, JOLLY RANCHER, Ice Breakers and several salty-snack brands, saying the core business and newer bets both showed traction.
Margin pressure: Gross margin fell 80 basis points because commodity inflation and tariff costs more than offset pricing and productivity gains, but management expects a meaningful recovery to start in Q2.
Guidance steady: Hershey kept its full-year organic net sales growth outlook at 2.5% to 3.5% and adjusted EPS growth at 30% to 35%, while also reiterating roughly 400 basis points of full-year gross margin improvement.
Second-half support: The company pointed to seasonal activations, cultural moments, and a broader innovation pipeline as demand drivers for the back half of the year, including Americana, the HERSHEY movie, and new product launches.
