The Hershey Company

Meet Alexandria Jackson, a Digital Sales Executive on our Amazon team. Alexandria has been with The Hershey Company for 4+ years. During this time, she has: 🙌grown professionally through strategic career moves. 🤝participated in our Business Resource Groups 🫶worked with students at the Milton Hershey School – a cost-free, world-class school for low-income children established by our founder and his wife in 1909 Hear more about Alexandria’s experience ⬇️.

Join us in celebrating the makers of our iconic brands and products. To our manufacturing employees, thank you for all you do in making moments of goodness for people everywhere.

🍫 🌱Ever wondered what a chocolate scientist does? In this blog, meet Hershey’s Allison Brown, PhD who embarked on a sweet mission to Trinidad and Tobago to volunteer her expertise to cacao farmers and entrepreneurs. It’s all part of the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer program. https://bit.ly/3VyciTl

At Hershey, food safety is at the heart of all we do. On World Food Safety Day, and every day, we want to recognize our employees for doing their part to make the safe, high-quality products that make more moments of goodness. #WorldFoodSafetyDay

Goodness is at the center of all that we do at Hershey. Creating the sweet and salty snacks consumers love is underpinned by the pride we take in how our products are made. Today, we’re sharing the progress we are making together in ways large and small with our 2023 ESG Report, Goodness in Action. Here are a few highlights of what we achieved over the last year: 🍫 Building a more resilient cocoa supply chain with the Hershey Income Accelerator Program (HIAP), which aims to improve farmers’ livelihoods and reduce poverty in cocoa growing communities, reaching 1,850 farmers  🏫 Agreed to fund the construction of 12 primary schools in cocoa-producing communities, with the first school opening in December 2023 in Drissapé, Côte d’Ivoire  🌎 Reduced our owned emissions – Scope 1 and 2 – by 43% against a 2018 baseline  🌊 Achieved a 20% absolute reduction in combined water use across all facilities since 2022, including a 46% reduction at our headquarters  ♾️ Phased out more than 1.7 million pounds of material by eliminating, redesigning and reducing packaging  👥 Recognized as a Great Place to Work® in six countries, named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere, and ranked #1 on Fair360’s top companies for diversity  Read the report: https://bit.ly/3RcBWKQ

Thank you to all our manufacturing employees for everything that you do!

While we think everyday is "I Love Reese's Day" there one special day to celebrate the perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate...Today! So in honor of "I Love Reese's Day" we'd like to thank all of our employees who help make Reese's happen. #ILoveReesesDay #ImHershey

Our team is in Indianapolis for the 2024 NCA Sweets & Snacks Expo! We’re unwrapping our latest insights surrounding innovative retail capabilities and merchandising strategies, like augmented reality and image recognition, and showcasing our expanding sweet and salty portfolio. To learn more about our week at #SweetsAndSnacks, visit https://lnkd.in/efeG2ami

🌟 We have been recognized by @pointsoflight #TheCivic50 as one of the most community-minded companies in the nation. We were also named the Consumer Staples leader for the third year in a row and received the Volunteer Leader Award for having the leading volunteer culture and embracing volunteerism as a priority for civic engagement. We’re proud to have been named to The Civic 50 every year since it was created in 2012.   We take pride in our value of Making a Difference. It comes from Milton Hershey’s legacy of kindness, support and showing up for our communities. In 2023, our remarkable employees volunteered nearly 130,000 hours and raised more than $1.6M in matched giving. Click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eDVJgeQB

SkinnyPop popcorn is the snack that keeps on giving–bite after bite. In this behind-the-scenes blog, laugh out loud with our three new ads by PREACHER, showcasing SkinnyPop Original popcorn as a rare snack that tastes delicious and is effortlessly simple with just three ingredients. #FreedomToSnack Click this Link to Read the Blog: https://bit.ly/3URbp7Z