Hershey Company
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) operates as a global confectionery and snacking leader headquartered in the United States with operations spanning approximately 65 countries worldwide. The company's website is www.thehersheycompany.com. From the company’s description.
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What Hershey Company does
In the company’s own words
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) operates as a global confectionery and snacking leader headquartered in the United States with operations spanning approximately 65 countries worldwide. The company's website is www.thehersheycompany.com.
Hershey manufactures and distributes chocolate, non-chocolate confectionery, gum, mints, protein bars, and salty snack products under more than 85 brand names. The company's iconic portfolio includes Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Kit Kat, Cadbury, Twizzlers, York, SkinnyPop popcorn, and numerous other established brands. The company also operates Hershey's Chocolate World retail locations in Hershey Pennsylvania, New York, Las Vegas, Niagara Falls, and Singapore.
The company organizes its business into three reportable segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. North America Confectionery represents the largest segment, encompassing traditional chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, gum, refreshment products, protein bars, spreads, and pantry items sold in the United States and Canada. North America Salty Snacks focuses on ready-to-eat popcorn, baked snacks, and pretzels in the United States. The International segment includes operations in Mexico, Brazil, India, Malaysia, and export markets across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.
As of December 31, 2025, Hershey employed approximately 17,550 full-time and 2,045 part-time employees worldwide. Approximately 74 percent of the company's manufacturing capacity is located in the United States. The company's principal customers include wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, and department stores. McLane Company, Inc., a major wholesale distributor, accounted for approximately 27 percent of consolidated net sales in 2025.
Hershey's competitive advantages include strong brand equity, extensive distribution networks, product innovation capabilities, and operational scale. The company has made strategic acquisitions including LesserEvil LLC in 2025, the Sour Strips brand in 2024, and Weaver Popcorn assets in 2023 to expand its snacking portfolio and manufacturing capacity. The company traces its heritage to 1894 and was incorporated in Delaware in 1927.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry (SIC)
- Food Products
- Headquarters
- HERSHEY, PA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 47111
- SIC
- 2060
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Hershey Company — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Hershey Company · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Hershey Company’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Hershey Company’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 12 issues of Hershey Company’s debt, $354.62M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.18%, maturing 2026 to 2050.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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