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• Cadbury Starts Solo Against Bid Background

  By David Jones LONDON (Reuters UK) - Cadbury (CBRY) must improve profit margins and earnings or become a sitting duck for a bid, analysts said on Friday as the company started trading as a standalone confectionery group. London-based Cadbury needs to boost margins towards the ...

  News items 2008-05-02

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Coca-Cola Co., Hershey Co., Kraft Foods Inc., PepsiCo, William Wrigley Jr. Co.

• Mars and Buffett Buying Wrigley For $23 Billion

  By Brad Dorfman CHICAGO (Reuters UK) - M&M's candy maker Mars Inc has teamed up with billionaire Warren Buffett to buy the No. 1 chewing gum manufacturer Wm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY) for $23 billion (11.55 billion pounds), creating the world's largest confectionery company. The...

  News items 2008-04-28

  Tags: Analyst, Hershey Co., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Wrigley, Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods Inc., William Wrigley Jr. Co.

• Mars, Buffett Buying Wrigley For $23 Billion

  By Brad Dorfman CHICAGO (Reuters) - M&M's candy maker Mars Inc has teamed up with billionaire Warren Buffett to buy the No. 1 chewing gum manufacturer Wm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY) for $23 billion, creating the world's largest confectionery company. The deal, announced...

  News items 2008-04-28

  Tags: Food & Beverage, Financial accounting, Investment, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Hershey Co., billionaire, food, emerging market, financing, Chicago, analyst, financial market, Thomson Reuters Corp., stock price, acquisition, stock, finan

• Mars, Warren Buffett Near Wrigley Deal: Reports

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - M&M's maker Mars Inc and Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa) were near a deal to buy Wm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY), the largest U.S. chewing gum maker, for over $22 billion, according to media reports early on Monday. The deal,...

  News items 2008-04-28

  Tags: Hershey Co., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., U.S., market capitalization, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., brand, financing

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• Hershey Center for Applied Research Supports Acceleration of Scientific Research and Development

  Simon Revell, world-renowned Pfizer Enterprise 2.0 expert, to deliver keynote address at launch of ground-breaking social networking and scientific mapping online community HERSHEY, Pa., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon Revell, Manager of Enterprise 2.0 Technology Development at Pfizer , will discuss how Web 2.0 social software can...

  Articles 2008-05-06

• The house cocktail

  Whisper Rock doesn't have an official drink, but sooner or later everyone tries Mike Marranzino's favorite shake. Put four scoops of Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, two ounces of Hershey's chocolate syrup and a banana into a blender and mix thoroughly. For a kick, add two ounces of Bacardi light rum....

  Articles 2008-05-01

• Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Extends Corporate Network With BridgeWave's Gigabit Wireless Links

  GigE Radios Selected as Core IT Infrastructure Technology to Fulfill Increasing Demands for Bandwidth SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions, today announced that Hershey Entertainment & Resorts (HE&R), a leader in the hospitality and entertainment industries, has adopted BridgeWave's gigabit wireless...

  Articles 2008-04-28

• John C. Long, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, to Retire from The Hershey Company

  HERSHEY, Pa., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Hershey Company today announced that John C. Long, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, will retire after more than 22 years with the company, effective April 30. Long will work as a consultant with Hershey, continuing to lead the company's efforts in...

  Articles 2008-04-28

• Buffet, Mars look to buy Wrigley for 22 bln dlrs: report

  PARIS (AFP) — Warren Buffet, the world's richest man, and Mars Inc, the US food and confectionary giant, plan to buy iconic US chewing gum maker Wrigley for more than 22 billion dollars (14 billion euros), the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the...

  Articles 2008-04-28

• Hershey's sales flat with an early Easter

  HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Hershey's first quarter wasn't so sweet, with the nation's largest candymaker reporting that sales remained flat, profits fell by a third and results missed analyst expectations. The Hershey Co. said Thursday it was hurt by an early Easter holiday and the discontinuation of one...

  Articles 2008-04-25

• Hershey Announces First Quarter Results and Reaffirms 2008 Outlook

  - Earnings per share-diluted from operations $0.37 - March launch of Hershey's Bliss TM and Starbucks(R) new products on track - Global Supply Chain Transformation progressing as planned - Outlook reaffirmed for 2008, growth in net sales 3-4%, with earnings per share-diluted from operations...

  Articles 2008-04-24

• Dan Gross: Despite 'Hell's Kitchen' flop, Sigel says scallop dish has legs

  WHEN WE SPOKE to Pine Hill's  Matt Sigel  after his signature dish of diver scallops and white chocolate made Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" host puke, Sigel predicted that despite  Gordon Ramsay's  regurgitation, other chefs would bite on his dish. Food Network host  Robert Irvine  cooked diver scallops with white chocolate (Hershey's...

  Articles 2008-04-21

• Hershey Declares Quarterly Dividends

  HERSHEY, Pa., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of The Hershey Company today declared quarterly dividends of $0.2975 on the Common Stock and $0.2678 on the Class B Common Stock. The dividends are payable June 13, 2008, to stockholders of record May 23, 2008. It is...

  Articles 2008-04-21

• The chocolate factory that could make things sticky for Democrats

  Kathy Higo has blonde hair bunched up in a net that she isn't going to bother taking off for the quick break she is snatching in the spring sunshine outside the factory workers' entrance. She is a bagger, and those pesky chocolates they make inside don't stop coming just because...

  Articles 2008-04-19

• Cosmetology Students Vie for the Top Prize at Empire Education Group's 4th Annual National Competition

  POTTSVILLE, Pa., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Some 3000 cosmetology students are about to descend upon Hershey PA, for Empire Education Group's fourth annual National Competition & Hair Show. The students, who are the superstar hairdressers, aestheticians, makeup artists, colorists and nail technicians of tomorrow, are competing for valuable...

  Articles 2008-04-17

• Party With Celebrities, Network With Experts, and Deduct It All?

  HAVE IT ALL Vacations Produced by Podium Public Relations Focus on Work-Life Balance With Top Speakers SAN FRANCISCO -- Step aside "eco-adventures" and "vocation vacations" this summer the focus is on "self discovery and personal growth." Thanks to books like A New Earth and The Secret, travelers are...

  Articles 2008-04-14

• Bears top Phantoms, earn spot in playoffs

  HERSHEY, Pa. - The Hershey Bears rallied from a 2-0 deficit to beat the Phantoms, 5-2, last night in the AHL and earn the East Division's final spot in the Calder Cup playoffs. The setback placed the Phantoms in an East semifinals opener in Albany on Wednesday night. The River...

  Articles 2008-04-13

• Bears get by Phantoms, 4-2

  Chris Borque scored two power-play goals as the Hershey Bears rallied to beat the Phantoms, 4-2, last night at the Wachovia Spectrum with the AHL season winding down. Hershey needs a point to clinch the East Division's final playoff spot. Triston Grant and Ryan Potulny each scored to give the...

  Articles 2008-04-12

• Zacks Sell List Highlights: Northwest Airlines Corp., American LD Lease Inc., Hershey Company and Apollo Group Inc

  CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases details on a group of stocks that are currently members of the exclusive Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now. These stocks are currently rated as a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell): Northwest Airlines Corp. (NYSE: NWA) and American LD Lease Inc. (NYSE: ANL)....

  Articles 2008-04-11

• Seven Summits Research Releases Comments on EMC, SNDK, NYX, SHLD, and HSY

  CHICAGO, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research releases NewsBites on key stocks. Seven Summits Strategic Investments NewsBites are available to all investors at: http://www.go7now.com/nb/0411Y (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.) Today's Seven...

  Articles 2008-04-11