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CNNMoney: Companies playing 'Let's make a deal'updated: Tue Sep 08 2009 15:11:00

When Kraft offered $16.7 billion for Cadbury over Labor Day weekend, the deal was immediately shunned by the British candy giant.

Man dies at chocolate factoryupdated: Thu Jul 09 2009 01:56:00

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.

Commentary: How words can last a lifetimeupdated: Sun May 31 2009 09:31:00

The enduring moments of our lives, the ones that stay with us the longest, don't necessarily make the headlines.

SI.com: Capitals recall Alzner, claim Kronwall off waiversupdated: Fri Feb 06 2009 15:45:00

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.

SI.com: Ovechkin given day off as precautionupdated: Wed Jan 28 2009 16:59:00

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.

CNNMoney: The incredible shrinking cereal boxupdated: Wed Sep 10 2008 14:27:00

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.

Time.com: Snickers, M&M Maker Raising Pricesupdated: Thu Aug 21 2008 18:30:00

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

CNNMoney: Commodities come roaring backupdated: Thu Aug 21 2008 15:17:00

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.

Time.com: A Boost in the Cost of Chocolateupdated: Fri Aug 15 2008 19:00:00

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

FSB: How to bring more customers to your storeupdated: Wed Feb 06 2008 12:21:00

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?

Food imports explodeupdated: Thu Oct 18 2007 10:30:00

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.

CNNMoney: Food preservatives linked to hyperactivityupdated: Fri Sep 07 2007 06:34:00

The widely-used food preservative sodium benzoate has been linked to hyperactivity in children, according to a study from British researchers.

CNNMoney: Campbell Soup eyes Godiva optionsupdated: Wed Aug 08 2007 23:49:00

Campbell Soup Co. said Thursday that it is exploring strategic alternatives for Godiva Chocolatier, including a possible sale of the luxury chocolate business.

CNNMoney: Mixed start for stocksupdated: Thu Feb 15 2007 09:23:00

U.S. stocks were little changed at Thursday's open, a day after the Dow finished at a record high.

CNNMoney: Hershey to cut 1,500 jobs as part of shakeupupdated: Thu Feb 15 2007 08:25:00

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.

Fortune: Why Dark Is the New Blackupdated: Mon Nov 14 2005 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: Why Smithfield will keep bringing home the baconupdated: Mon Aug 22 2005 00:01:00

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...

Motherhood inching later in lifeupdated: Fri May 06 2005 12:55:00

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."

CNNMoney: Directors get better pay: reportupdated: Mon Mar 07 2005 08:09:00

Corporate directorships are becoming more lucrative -- again, according to a published report.

CNNMoney: The pure pleasure of great chocolateupdated: Thu Feb 10 2005 14:22:00

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...

CNNMoney: Chocoholic beware: Prices going upupdated: Thu Dec 16 2004 12:32:00

Getting a chocolate fix is about to get more expensive.

CNNMoney: Kraft Foods shedding units?updated: Mon Oct 18 2004 07:39:00

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....

CNNMoney: A purrfect meal: a restaurant for catsupdated: Tue Aug 17 2004 11:32:00

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...

CNNMoney: Booze, beach and barbecue stocksupdated: Wed May 26 2004 10:31:00

Booze, beach and barbecue -- all things synonymous with summertime, when the living's easy and the stock picking is hard.

CNNMoney: Low-carb bubble about to burst?updated: Fri Mar 19 2004 08:20:00

Foodmakers keep it coming: Low-carb Doritos, low-carb Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies, Heinz' 'One Carb' ketchup, a low-sugar Krispy Kreme Doughnut.

CNNMoney: Update: America's best stocksupdated: Thu Feb 19 2004 16:20:00

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.

Money Magazine: Learning to Love Luxury Chocolate It's dark, it's smooth, it has cachet--and at as much as $70 a pound, it better be goodupdated: Sun Feb 01 2004 00:01:00

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...

CNNMoney: Loving luxury chocolateupdated: Thu Jan 29 2004 13:43:00

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.

CNNMoney: Stocks to watch Wednesdayupdated: Tue Jan 27 2004 16:55:00

Earnings news remained at the forefront after the closing bell Tuesday, with Amazon.com, Kraft Corp. and Electronic Arts all showing off quarterly numbers.

Fortune: What Went Right 2002 was a better year for business than you might have realized. We highlight a few of the updated: Mon Dec 30 2002 00:01:00

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.

FSB: There Goes the Neighborhood? Vermont residents fret that the sale of a local employer will choke Bennington.updated: Fri Nov 01 2002 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: Sweet Surrender There was much rejoicing when the town founded by Milton Hershey blocked the sale of his updated: Mon Oct 14 2002 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: The FORTUNE Hype Indexupdated: Mon Sep 30 2002 00:01:00

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...

Money Magazine: Not Bad Work For An Ex-Rockerupdated: Mon Feb 01 1999 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: An Electronics Firm Will Save Big Money By Replacing Six People With One And Lose All This Paperwork, Using Enterprise Resource updated: Mon Feb 02 1998 00:01:00

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 ...

Fortune: IN MOSCOW, "RED OCTOBER" MEANS CHOCOLATE COMEBACK OF A VENERABLE RUSSIAN CANDYMAKERupdated: Mon Jun 09 1997 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: GHOULIES, GOBLINS, AND MARKET SHAREupdated: Mon Nov 11 1996 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: TAILORED HEALTH PLANS TAKE OFFupdated: Mon Jun 27 1994 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: MORE STATES EYE TRADEMARKS AS TAX TROVEupdated: Mon Apr 04 1994 00:01:00

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....

Money Magazine: Premium brands, bionic tomatoes, a Bell that rings chimes and a metal that glisters more than gold THESE BRAND NAMES COULD RETURupdated: Thu Jul 01 1993 00:01:00

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...

Money Magazine: HOME SWEET TOXIC HOME A YEAR AFTER BEING EVICTED OVER DANGER FROM A NEARBY DUMP, A COUPLE FIGHT THE OFFICIALS WHO NOW SAY THAT Iupdated: Mon Jun 01 1992 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: BUSINESS CHIEFS ARE SURPRISINGLY CHEERY -- FOR THE NEAR TERMupdated: Mon Jan 28 1991 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: SO WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PAY? Chief executives differ over that question, the latest FORTUNE 500/CNN Moneyline CEO Poll shows.updated: Mon Jun 05 1989 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESSupdated: Mon Apr 24 1989 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: FORTUNE Magazine contents page APRIL 24, 1989 VOL. 119, NO. 9 updated: Mon Apr 24 1989 00:01:00

42 THE U.S. GETS BACK IN FIGHTING SHAPE Forget about American manufacturers turning into worldclass wimps. by Alex Taylor III

Money Magazine: THESE STURDY SHARES CAN SEE YOU THROUGH WHATEVER LIES AHEADupdated: Sat Oct 01 1988 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: UNCOVERING MARS' UNKNOWN EMPIRE They are America's richest family, who got to be worth $12.5 billion by selling sweets and susteupdated: Mon Sep 26 1988 00:01:00

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...

Fortune: Do your bit to help: Eat more chocolateupdated: Mon May 09 1988 00:01:00

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 ...

Fortune: PORTFOLIO TALK An Explorer's Offbeat Findsupdated: Mon Feb 15 1988 00:01:00

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...

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