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The Hershey Chocolate Company was founded in 1894 as a subsidiary of Lancaster Caramel Company. In 1896, Hershey built a milk-processing plant so he could create and refine a recipe for his milk chocolate candies. In 1899, he developed the Hershey process, which is less sensitive to milk quality than traditional methods.
Milton S. Hershey, c. 1915 Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.. Trained in the confectionery business, Hershey pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk.
Hershey Creamery Company, also known as Hershey's Ice Cream, is an American creamery that produces ice cream, sorbet, sherbet, frozen yogurt, and other frozen desserts such as smoothies and frozen slab-style ice cream mixers. It was founded by Jacob Hershey and four of his brothers in 1894 and taken over by the Holder family in the 1920s.
He founded both the Hershey Chocolate Co. and the Milton Hershey School. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003, AMERICAN MUSIC LEGEND JOHNNY CASH DIES ... The company town of Hershey, Penn ...
Hershey chocolate bars had their origin in Milton Hershey's first successful confectionery business, Lancaster Caramel Company, which was founded in 1886.After seeing German chocolate manufacturing machinery at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate making business. [2]
The Bloomington factory operated until 1900 when it was sold to the Paul F. Beich Company. Shortly after establishing the Western Branch, Hershey set up a third caramel factory in Reading, Pennsylvania. [2] The Lancaster Caramel Company was incorporated on February 8, 1894 and the Hershey Chocolate Company was formally organized as a subsidiary ...
Hershey was just one of several copycats, and the H.O. Wilbur company even sued to stop them. It didn't work, and the company faded into the background as Hershey grew to become dominant.
Milton S. Hershey, creator of The Hershey Company, was a chocolate industrialist and had founded the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. [8] On November 15, 1909, [9] he and his wife, Catherine Hershey, signed over a 486-acre (1.97 km 2) piece of farmland, forming the Hershey Industrial School. [10]