The Hershey Company brands

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Heath bar

Heath

The Heath bar is a candy bar made of toffee and milk chocolate, marketed by L.S. Heath beginning in 1914, subsequently by Leaf, Inc., and since 1996 by Hershey.

Shaped as a thin hard slab with a milk chocolate coating, the toffee originally contained sugar, butter, and almonds, and was a small squarish bar weighing 1 ounce. It is similar to Hershey's Skor bar and Mondelēz's Daim bar. The Heath bar ranked 56th nationally in the US and 110th on the US East Coast in a 1987 popularity survey, and has become a popular add-in ingredient to ice cream, cookies and other confections.

In 1913, L.S. Heath, a school teacher, bought an existing confectionery shop in Robinson, Illinois as a likely business opportunity for his oldest sons, Bayard Heath and Everett Heath. The brothers opened a combination candy store, ice cream parlor, and manufacturing operation there in 1914.

With the success of the business, the elder Heath became interested in ice cream, and opened a small dairy factory in 1915. His sons worked on expanding their confectionery business. At some point they reportedly acquired a toffee recipe, via a traveling salesman, from a Greek confectioner in another part of the state. In 1928, they began marketing it locally as "Heath English Toffee", proclaiming it "America's Finest".

In 1931, when Bayard and Everett were persuaded by their father to sell the confectionery and work at his dairy, they brought their candy-making equipment with them, and established a retail business there. The Heaths came up with the marketing idea of including their toffee on the order form taken around by the Heath dairy trucks, so that one could order Heath bars to be delivered along with one's milk and cottage cheese.

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Hershey%27s Kissables

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Hershey bar

Hershey's Milk Chocolate

The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar (commonly called the Hershey's Bar) is the chocolate bar manufactured by the Hershey Company. It is often referred by Hershey as "The Great American Chocolate Bar." The Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar was first sold in 1900, followed by the Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds variety, which began production in 1908. Circular candies made of Hershey milk chocolate, called Hershey's Drops, were released in 2010.

The Hershey Process milk chocolate used in these bars uses fresh milk delivered directly from local farms. The process was developed by Milton Hershey and produced the first mass-produced chocolate in the United States. As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States, but less so internationally, especially in areas where European chocolates are more widely available. The process is a trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This flavor gives the product a particular sour, "tangy" taste which the US public has come to associate with the taste of chocolate, to the point that other manufacturers often add butyric acid to their milk chocolates. The American bar's taste profile was not as popular with the Canadian public, leading Hershey to introduce a reformulated Canadian bar in 1983.

Until 2015, Hershey also added polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) to their chocolate which contributed to the difference in taste between Hershey chocolates and European chocolates.

In addition to the standard Milk Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with Almonds varieties, Hershey's also produces several other chocolate bars in various flavors: Special Dark chocolate, Cookies 'N' Creme, Symphony (both Milk Chocolate and Almond Toffee), Mr. Goodbar (with peanuts), and Krackel (with crisped rice). There were also nine limited flavors: Double Chocolate, Nut Lovers, Twosomes Reese's Pieces, Cookies 'N' Chocolate, Cookies 'N' Mint, Strawberries 'n' Creme, Raspberries 'n' Creme, Twosomes Heath, and Twosomes Whoppers. All flavors have between 210 and 230 calories per standard-sized bar.

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Hershey%27s Drops

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Hershey%27s Cookies %27n%27 Creme

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Hershey%27s Kisses

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Hershey%27s Miniatures

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Hershey%27s Special Dark

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Hollywood Candy Company

The Hollywood Candy Company, or Hollywood Brands, was an American confectionery company formed in Hollywood, Carver County, Minnesota, in 1912 by Frank Martoccio.

Martoccio, head of the F.A. Martoccio Macaroni Company acquired a defunct candy factory in 1911 for the sole purpose of replacing one of his own factory's machines that had burned out. Martoccio was talked into buying the entire Pratt and Langhoft Candy plant and found himself in the confectionery business. He purchased another candy company, the Pendergast Candy Company of Minneapolis in 1927, changing the name to Hollywood Brands in 1933. The Pendergast Company had discovered the method of making a fluffy nougat for candy bars that was copied by Frank Mars for his Milky Way bars. Martoccio invented a synthetic coating for his candy bars to keep them from melting in warm temperatures. Martoccio used only the very best ingredients—real cocoa butter, eggs, etc., and was still able to sell his milk chocolate bars for 3 cents compared to the 5 cent Hershey bar (1955). That was not continued after the company was sold in 1967.

Hollywood moved to Centralia, Illinois, in 1938. During the 1950s, the Hollywood Candy Company owned a Crosley Super Sport which was painted to look like the Zero candy bar wrapper and employed a midget, to impersonate a character called Zero and drive around advertising the candy bar. In 1967 the Martoccio family sold Hollywood Brands to Consolidated Foods, later Sara Lee. The Centralia plant was destroyed in a fire in 1980.

In 1988 Hollywood Brands was acquired by the Leaf Candy Company, then later became part of The Hershey Company in 1996.

Amongst Hollywood's confectionery products were:

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Ice Breakers (candy)

Ice Breakers is a sugar-free brand of gum and disc-shaped mint candy currently made by Hershey. Ice Breakers are sold in the United States, Canada and Asia.

They were first produced by Nabisco in 1996, then acquired by Hershey in 2000. They come in several flavors, including peppermint, wintergreen, cinnamon, the new iced-tea, fruit sours (made up of a mixture of 4 sour flavors: pink lemonade, apple, tangerine, and watermelon), berry sours (a mix of 3 flavors: originally, berry splash, strawberry and raspberry lemonade; as of mid-2010, green apple, watermelon, and tangerine), and tropical sours (a mix of flavors: tangerine passion, lime coconut, peach fruit, and mango margarita). The candies are generally white in color and speckled with other colors to indicate their flavor. These candies are sugar-free, instead using Sorbitol as a sweetener. When consumed in large amounts, such as eating a whole tin in one sitting, it has been found that this artificial sweetener causes a profound laxative effect in many people.

Ice Breakers mints are sold in round cases, approximately 3 in (7.6 cm) in diameter and .6 in (2 cm) in height. These cases were originally made of a drawn steel bottom and an injection molded top with two hinged plastic flaps, a larger one labeled "To Share" and a smaller one "Not To Share". Their design was changed in mid-2006 to be made entirely out of plastic, while switching the labels for the flaps (small flap labeled "To Share" and large flap labeled "Not to Share") to make sense from a hygiene perspective. In 2015, the labels from the flap were changed, again. The small flap labeled "ONE" and the large flap labeled "MANY." All cases depict the fruit flavor contained inside.

There was also a type of Ice Breaker mint named "Liquid Ice". Manufactured in Japan, they are small, spherical gel pellets that, as they melt in your mouth, secrete a flavoured mint oil. The Liquid Ice candies are often criticized for having a somewhat bitter flavor due to its use of Neotame as a sweetener. They were discontinued after a year due to lackluster sales.

Another mint that was created under the Ice Breakers label was Pacs, breath mint strips formed into envelopes and filled with a powdered breath mint candy inside which released as the envelopes dissolved in the mouth. Pacs drew heavy criticism and negative press due to the Pacs' resemblance to drug packets. They were promptly discontinued after a few months of release.

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