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    Hershey Chocolate

    I know there is a thread on Hershey, but wanted to assure that people saw BOTH sides of this story.

    The Hershey Company (or Hershey's, as even it calls itself) is the largest North American chocolate maker. The company has annual revenues of nearly $5 billion and employs more than 13,000 people worldwide.

    The business was founded by Milton S. Hershey in the 1880s as the Lancaster Caramel Company. Its chocolate-making operations were added in 1893 when the candymaker thought to enrobe some of his caramels in chocolate. Soon the consumer interest in just chocolate itself became apparent to this
    savvy businessman, and he formed the Hershey Chocolate Company to service that market. Interest in Hershey's chocolate offerings did nothing but grow as the candymaker mastered the secret of producing milk chocolate, and in 1900 Hershey sold off his caramel company for the then-princely sum of $1 million.

    Milton Hershey was not your typical corporate tycoon — unlike others who exploited their workers to produce the largest possible profit, he worked to better the lives of those he employed. He built them a town (named Hershey, of course), and furnished it with schools, churches, banks, and stores. He also established the Hershey Industrial School (now the Milton Hershey School), then a training center for orphaned boys but now open to both genders.

    Milton Hershey died in 1945, but his town of Hershey lives on, as does his chocolate-making empire.

    In February 2007, Hershey's announced it would be cutting more than ten percent of its workforce and closing some of its U.S. plants. It expects to do away with about 1,500 jobs over the next three years from its current workforce of more than 13,000 and also plans to reduce the number of manufacturing lines it operates by almost a third. The company is building a new facility in Monterrey, Mexico, that it says will be focused on both low-value added products and on emerging markets, and it is setting up a joint manufacturing venture in China with Lotte Confectionery of South Korea.

    Hershey's Canadian operations are almost ended; by December 2007 the company will no longer have facilities in Canada. Other plant closures include facilities in Oakdale, California; Naugatuck, Connecticut; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

    However, despite the e-mail's message that Hershey's is ending its U.S. operations, it should be kept in mind that while 3,000 of Hershey's U.S. workforce was (or will be) laid off, the rest of its American employees continue to work for the company, and Hershey's plants in the U.S. continue to make chocolate.

    Boycott the chocolate maker's products if you feel it's the right thing to do, but if you do, do so on the basis of protesting a cut in Hershey's U.S. workforce, not because you think the company has ceased its American operations and shut down all its U.S. plants.

    Barbara "bittersweet chocolate" Mikkelson

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    Birchall, Jonathan. "Hershey to Cut Workforce by 10%."
    Financial Times. 16 February 2007 (p. 24).

    Dochat, Tom. "Hershey's Hazleton Workers to Keep Jobs."
    [Harrisburg] Patriot News. 18 May 2007.

    Salerno, Christina. "Hershey Plant for Sale as Layoffs Start."
    Sacramento Bee. 7 July 2007 (p. D1).

    Smith, Sharon. "Labor Savings Draw Jobs to Mexico."
    [Harrisburg] Patriot News. 24 June 2007 (p. S6).

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    This is one of the many problems in the United States that we have. Our jobs our going away because of Nafta. When they are all gone we won't have the money to defend ourselves, pay taxes or live. I can't understand why the government is allowing us to go the way of third world. That really is what this is all about. It all ties in. Illegal Immigration and NAFTA.
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    When they leave and return from Mexico ...I will buy their Chocolate AGAIN...Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    I HAVE TWO REASONS FOR NOT BUYING HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE ANYMORE.

    FIRST, THEY HAVE LAID OFF WORKERS AND MOVED SOME PLANTS TO MEXICO. I WOULD BOYCOTT THEM FOR THAT ALONE. I DONT CARE IF THEY STILL HAVE SOME PLANTS IN USA....HOW DO I KNOW THEY WONT SHUT THOSE DOWN TOO? THEY MOVED SOME PLANTS TO MEXICO OUT OF GREED.

    SECOND, IF SOME OF THEIR PRODUCT IS BEING MADE IN MEXICO...I AM DOWNRIGHT SCARED TO EAT IT. WHO KNOWS WHAT IT GOING ON DOWN THERE. I DONT TRUST ANYTHING FROM MEXICO ESPECIALLY FOOD PRODUCTS. TOO CORRUPT. WHO IS GOING TO OVERSEE THE PLANTS? THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT? LMAO!!!

    IT HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT THAT I DONT BUY ANYTHING IF IT EVEN HAS SPANISH WRITING ON THE PACKAGE. I DONT TRUST IT. CHINA TOO. DONT TRUST EM.
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    I will boycott Hershey for laying off American workers and setting up operations in Mexico and Communist China. Will it be called the Great American Chocolate Bar in Communist China?
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