When Kraft offered $16.7 billion for Cadbury over Labor Day weekend, the deal was immediately shunned by the British candy giant.
An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's office.
The enduring moments of our lives, the ones that stay with us the longest, don't necessarily make the headlines.
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- The Washington Capitals recalled defensemen Karl Alzner from Hershey of the American Hockey League on Friday and claimed Staffan Kronwall off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs organization.
Alex Ovechkin was given Wednesday off, an excused absence from practice that Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau said had nothing to do with the "stinger" the league's reigning MVP got from a shoulder-first crash into the boards.
Consumers are starting to notice a few less snaps, crackles and pops in their Cocoa Krispies lately. That's because cereal boxes - and the amount of cereal inside - are shrinking along with most food packages in the grocery store.
The maker of Snickers bars and M&Ms candies said it is raising wholesale prices on various items to offset the higher costs of raw materials, packaging and energy, the second major candy company in the past week to announce such a move
Oil up nearly $6. Gold higher for third time this week. A bushel of corn trading a buck more than it did a week ago.
Hershey Co. said Friday it plans to raises prices on its products by an average of 11 percent as it tries to stem the impact of soaring commodities costs
Dear FSB: I opened a fashion store in a high-income snowbird area last February. The store has high overhead and a high lease. With all the bad signs for the economy, stock market and real estate market, our market was hurting even before we settled here. With a limited budget, what would be the best marketing strategy to attract more customers?
CNN's Christine Romans reports some processed foods have ingredients from dozens of countries.
CNNMoney: Stocks in standstillupdated: Tue Oct 02 2007 09:32:00
U.S. stocks were little changed at Tuesday's open as investors awaited some key reports in the housing and auto sectors.
The widely-used food preservative sodium benzoate has been linked to hyperactivity in children, according to a study from British researchers.
Campbell Soup Co. said Thursday that it is exploring strategic alternatives for Godiva Chocolatier, including a possible sale of the luxury chocolate business.
U.S. stocks were little changed at Thursday's open, a day after the Dow finished at a record high.
Hershey announced Thursday that it would cut 1,500 jobs as part of a three-year transformation program.
Money Magazine: How Sweet It Isupdated: Thu Feb 01 2007 00:01:00
Forrest Gump may have remarked that life is like a box of chocolates, but he wouldn't believe just how unpredictable that box has become.
CNNMoney: Bargain-hunting timeupdated: Sun Jan 01 2006 20:45:00
The stock market closed out 2005 on a down note, as share prices eroded in December. For the year, the Dow was down a fraction of a percentage point, while the S&P 500 was up 3 percent. Basically, the 2005 market was about as flat as you can get.
CNNMoney: Best hot chocolateupdated: Wed Dec 21 2005 09:15:00
After taking one sip of specialty chocolate maker MarieBelle's velvety Aztec Hot Chocolate, you know you're not drinking your mother's hot chocolate.
These are dark days for the U.S. chocolate business--and that's a good thing. After decades of feeding Americans the same old milky product, the industry has gotten a big boost recently from a run ...
FSB: Sweet Successupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
The founders of Joseph Schmidt Confections and Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker found a new kind of richness on Aug. 15, when Hershey announced it had bought their Bay Area companies. Joseph Schmid...
In June more than 31,000 people converged on the Iowa state fairgrounds in Des Moines for the annual World Pork Expo, a three-day porcine parade featuring Hormel's traveling SPAM-mobile, the requis...
Married with two children, Melissa Devereaux is like many mothers, but a difference that may have set her apart decades ago is now increasingly common. Devereaux, 40, is of "advanced maternal age."
Corporate directorships are becoming more lucrative -- again, according to a published report.
One recent workday, product designer Przmek Godycki was among the early-morning bonbon buyers at premium chocolate shop Jacques Torres in Manhattan.
FSB: Chocolate Boresupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00
Adam Smith was once the sort of fellow who enjoyed regular old candy—a Snickers, say, or a Hershey bar. Nowadays, with his palate all grown up, the 37-year-old derides those American chocolates for...
Getting a chocolate fix is about to get more expensive.
Kraft Foods may put its well-known Oscar Mayer, Post cereal and Altoids brands up for sale as the No. 1 U.S. food maker looks to slim down its business units, according to two separate reports Monday.
FSB: Off the Roadupdated: Wed Sep 01 2004 00:01:00
After traveling nearly every week for a decade, real estate consultant Patrick Veling has his share of road warrior horror stories. The canceled flights. The lost luggage. The sleeping in airports....
New York has always been a great food town, with cuisines from all over the world represented in its thousands of eating-places.
Money Magazine: Hersheyupdated: Thu Jul 01 2004 00:01:00
SWEET Have you noticed a whole bunch more choices at the candy counter lately? There are Hershey's Kisses in dark chocolate, caramel or almond. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups come in white, dark, insid...
Booze, beach and barbecue -- all things synonymous with summertime, when the living's easy and the stock picking is hard.
Foodmakers keep it coming: Low-carb Doritos, low-carb Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies, Heinz' 'One Carb' ketchup, a low-sugar Krispy Kreme Doughnut.
After each earnings reporting season, I update my list of 70 top growth stocks. Although the Sivy 70 universe isn't intended to be a short-term buy list for traders, I do add and drop stocks from time to time as their long-term prospects change.
Unless you've been shopping on another planet, you know chocolate is no longer a simple matter of dark or milk, with or without interesting lumps. Supermarkets sell Lindt and Perugina. Godiva, a pi...
Unless you've been shopping on another planet, you know chocolate is no longer a simple matter of dark or milk, with or without interesting lumps.
Earnings news remained at the forefront after the closing bell Tuesday, with Amazon.com, Kraft Corp. and Electronic Arts all showing off quarterly numbers.
Journalists are a cynical lot. We are natural-born skeptics searching for the black clouds in every silver lining. Our mien is--well, how to put it?--mean.
For the small Vermont town of Bennington, the news came as a shock: Terry Ehrich, owner of Hemmings Motor News, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had put his company up for sale. "Not just fo...
On that Black Thursday in July when the trust that Milton Hershey founded put the company that Milton Hershey founded up for sale, the little town that Milton Hershey founded had a choice. The citi...
Fox's American Idol was so successful that the other TV networks are trying to develop copycats. The Hype Index is not immune. This month, our American Idol Edition takes a look at some icons, past...
What do Matt Damon and Alanis Morissette have in common with Chase Manhattan Bank? Dana Giachetto. The money manager to Gen-X icons has recently been tapped by Chase to co-manage a $100 million ven...
It may be the most powerful product endorsement ever: The world's two largest software companies, IBM and Microsoft, run big parts of their business on software that neither one of them makes. Big ...
The "Snickersization" of Russia is over. After experimenting with the delights and delicacies of all brands Western in the first few years of the post-Soviet era, Russians have begun shifting their...
For years Halloween, a $2.5 billion holiday, had spooked Frito-Lay. With the nation's children fixated on candy, sales of Fritos, Cheetos, and other munchies sank each October. Frito-Lay, though, t...
Smokers, doughnut eaters, and bungee jumpers, take heed: You may soon have to pay more than your co-workers for health insurance. An increasing number of companies are tailoring their coverage to t...
Being cute and cuddly, or even intangible, may no longer be enough to spare your company mascot and other trademarks from a state tax bite. That's the message from revenue departments around the U....
A decade of happy days for consumer-products stocks went up in smoke in early April. That's when Philip Morris announced it would cut prices on its popular Marlboro cigarettes by close to 20% in so...
Money Magazine: ADVICE FOR NEW GRADSupdated: Thu Apr 01 1993 00:01:00
If job hunting were baseball, Steven Froot, 25, would have gone down swinging. Strike one came when, seeking any job the baseball team had available, the 1990 Florida State graduate sent his resume...
FROM TIME TO TIME, DAVID AND PATSY THEOBALD OF Savannah still visit the vacant three-bedroom ranch house that they once called home. David, 45, a $53,000-a- year controller for the local Hershey Ch...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Jul 29 1991 00:01:00
HEAT-BEATING CHOCOLATE It's summer, and chocolate not only melts in your mouth, it also melts all over your shirt, hands, and children. Last year Hershey came up with a chocolate bar for the soldie...
Never mind that America's recession is all but universally acknowledged. A recent FORTUNE sampling of the nation's top CEOs finds that most think their companies are doing just fine, thank you. Tho...
AMERICA'S top chief executives are sharply divided over some of the most basic principles of how they are paid. Is their compensation sufficiently linked to performance? About half say yes, half no...
You can almost get a cavity by breathing the air near the plant on East Chocolate Avenue. It's worth the risk, say some security analysts, who are advising investors to follow their noses to Hershe...
42 THE U.S. GETS BACK IN FIGHTING SHAPE Forget about American manufacturers turning into worldclass wimps. by Alex Taylor III
If you agree with the widely followed investment theory of three steps and a stumble, you are on red alert. The theory is based on the fact that the stock market generally falls 20% to 30% whenever...
MARS INC. is the black hole of the packaged goods universe -- so powerful and large that it influences all the other objects in its system, yet so secretive and dense that not so much as a lumen of...
There's an awful lot of cocoa in Brazil. And in Malaysia and in West Africa. Gill & Duffus Group, a London commodities firm, forecasts a 1987-88 world crop of 2.1 million metric tons. That's about ...
Successful money managers can spring from unusual backgrounds. Take Charles Allmon, 66, of Bethesda, Maryland, who publishes the Growth Stock Outlook newsletter and runs $425 million for institutio...
Fortune: A tussle over votesupdated: Mon May 27 1985 00:01:00
Seagram Co. will ask shareholders at its May 22 annual meeting to approve a new form of common stock that would give the Bronfman family voting control of the Canadian company although it holds jus...