Say goodbye Hershey

On edit: Neglected to mention that this was sent to my e-mail.

A sad story for those of us who remember growing up
with Hershey bars, and just as sad for the generations of today. What
will be outsourced next? Pennsylvania is a big state, but it amazes me
in this day, how some news doesn't make it over the
mountain to the front page of our papers or the top of our news hours in
Western Pennsylvania .
Milton Hershey, this year, will be joining H. J.
Heinz in rolling over in his grave. Hershey Chocolate is moving to
MEXICO ...whoopee! They're even closing down Hershey Canada . Don't buy
any more Hershey Bars. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are my favorite and
they are made by Hershey. But, I will not purchase another one!
M.S. Hershey had a dream...I will buy my OWN
Sugar, Milk, Cocoa beans, (all natural mind you!) and make candy...(no
tariffs etc..) EVEN during the depression...HE and the Company made
money...NOW some Corporate big wigs are ruining the name...AND the
product M.S. created...
Please pass it on...What a bunch of
college educated "idiots".
Thank you M.S. Hershey for all the things I have
and all you have done for me and my family..."I" do appreciate it...as
for "Dick" Lenny and Company. good luck you greedy, money loving
SUCKERS...you are ruining the name, the company, and MANY lives in
central Pennsylvania ....
Read on...Enough is Enough!
So Hershey executives are closing plants
in the US , laying off over a thousand people, and destroying Mr.
Hershey's dream, all to cut labor, material costs and AVOID PAYING ANY
US TAXES!
The company will save about $170 million a year,
all on the backs of the American people. The top executives will still
make their mega bucks and the laid off workers will have to find other
jobs, some probably at minimum wage due to their age. All this to take
their jobs to India , China and Mexico , So WHAT part of the "GREAT"
American Chocolate Bar is left?...NOTHING! These countries are no doubt
laughing at the Americans, who they don't like anyway. How long are the
American people going to sit around and let big corporations do this to
us? We must all band together and let our Politicians in Washington know
we have had it with NAFTA, CAFTA and "SHAFTA" and we won't take it any
longer!
Please, do not buy any Hershey product! If the
company wants to take the work to these countries, then let those
countries buy the product. We don't need it!
BOYCOTT HERSHEY!!

How sad. What chocolate is still made here?

Or Mars.
I would hate to rule out snickers, pb Cups, Mounds, etc.

-Google

I guess I got into the habit of avoiding their products and never went back. They were pushing their baby formula on third world nations and babies were dying of diahrea.

Tipper Gore actually got me into it. I remember an article that her daughter's would buy Nestle bars when they were pissed at their mom as teens.

and the boycott is still VERY active!:
http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html

Nestlé Children's Book Prize winner refuses Nestlé money - Sean Taylor rejects cheque
http://www.babymilkaction.org/press/press12dec07.html

Press release 12 December 2007

Media coverage: The Bookseller - The Book Standard

Children's author, Sean Taylor, was announced today as the Gold Medal Winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize, under-5 category, for his book When a Monster is Born illustrated by Nick Sharratt (Orchard Books). In an open letter Mr. Taylor indicated that he would not accept the prize money for the award which is sponsored by Nestlé. He commented:

Being on the short list for the 2007 Nestlé Children’s book Prize is a significant honour for me, especially since so many children around the country have been involved in choosing the winning books. And I am delighted to accept the award offered to me.

However, because of questions surrounding Nestlé’s marketing of breast-milk substitutes, I do not feel able to accept the prize money.

This has not been a decision I have taken lightly. It has involved conversations with Baby Milk Action (a campaign group against Nestlé), Nestlé themselves, and an authoritative third party with experience in the field (who wishes to remain nameless).

Baby Milk Action is concerned by Nestlé’s record of aggressive marketing of baby foods, which contributes to the unnecessary death and suffering of infants around the world. Companies should be abiding by international marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, but Nestlé, the market leader, continues to produce systematic and widespreadviolations of the marketing requirements. These are defended at the most senior levels of the company.

How many infants died because of that business venture? Sell mothers in third world nations without safe water on the idea that your formula is wonderful and gives them more freedom because they don't have to nurse infants.

Who cares that the mothers end up putting contaminated water into newborns? Sales are great! Babies, schmabies, Nestles didn't care about babies relying on formula mixed with unsafe water....

Nestles? x( I will NEVER get over my mad on their tactics for profits.

i'm going to miss it.

The plant is the one where chocolate chips were first made and ran all through the Depression.

http://www.theartoftastingchocolate.com/2007/02/amano_artisan_c.html
http://www.amanochocolate.com/

and Amano Artisan.

Lindt & Sprungli (Swiss) chocolates for U.S. Consumption
are actually made in Stratham, New Hampshire.

http://www.lindt.com/2865/2870/3156/3171/3173.asp



Visit the factory store for great "seconds", or see their
two SMART cars re-designed as golden Easter bunnies,
complete with big golden ears.

They also own Ghirardelli of San Leandro, California.

Tesha

Lake Champlain Chocolates of Burlington, VT

http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/





Tesha

http://www.chocolatebar.com/



10% of net profits donated to help support species, habitat, and humanity!

In 2005 Endangered Species Chocolate moved from its original 5,000 square-foot facility in Oregon to Indiana. The newly renovated, fully automated Indianapolis facility provides 43,000 square feet and is expandable to 77,000 square feet. In keeping with the company’s commiment to protect species and our environment, the building is LEED® registered by the U.S. Green Building Rating System.

What a great gift idea!

:hi:

So I can still enjoy my Twix, Milky Ways, Snickers, Skittles, Starbursts, and M&Ms. That's the critical stuff.

Mmmmm.... Twix. :-)






Oh, no! Milk Duds are Hershey! And so are Rolos! I use Rolos to make a great snack!


Oh, shitballs.

:-(

Pittsburgh local, and their chocolate is YUMMY!!

Consistently rated very high among chocolate connoisseurs.

it's been habitually progressive in its history. but right now it's fighting for its life against truly evil companies like Nestle and Mars (and i can't help it, i just love Snickers, too. :( ). chocolatiers are often in dire straits with the level of competition out there, and the Carlyle group has set their sites on killing Hershey by any means possible (currently by stacking the board with as many of their cronies as they can). they are desperate to either wrestle control of Hershey's from the orphans and city or kill it outright. it's taking the rest of the community to fight back to prevent this chop shop to occur.

dont support destroying Hershey's, they're one of the few good chocolatiers left for mainstrean chocolate. Ghiradelli, See's, Gitard, Lindt, etc. are made here too, but they are artisian chocolates for the most part and cannot hope to replace the loss of a major mass production chocolatier. it's either this or truly evil competition folks! don't sell out to the latest outrage, this is a very complex business world and Hershey's has been on our sides more often than Mars or Nestle ever will.

really DU, unless you plan to go artisian only, which is painfully elitist considering everyone deserves the love of chocolate, we really shouldn't boycott Hershey's. there's far more evil companies out there to take a stand against; this move to mexico is an act of survival in cutthroat mass production chocolates. let the 'unwashed masses' have their chocolate, too!

:(

Since they no longer make the chocolate there, why bother having their chocolate-themed amusement park there?

If US ppl won't buy from them, they would lose their shirt. That is the only way they will listen, they care about nothing else. I have chocolate addiction, and I'd join in on this. I'm sick to death that these companies only benefit from leaving here instead of staying. They need incentive to stay and they aren't getting it from the government. We are the only ones left to give it to them.

Their chocolate is absolute shit.

Now, I have another reason not to partake of their wares.

It tastes like chocolate scented wax mixed with sawdust. Blech.

Now all those candy makers can become Pennsylvanian nurses, teachers, and computer techs.

Outsourcing wouldn't be a problem if Americans bought American made items. Free trade destroyed our collective for a cheap new world order.

The sad part is, the price of the candy bar will go up. The sheeple will never know they are eating outsourced, overpriced candy.

sad day

:cry:

People will look over and ask, "What's so funny?"

--IMM

the ladies might even go for it.

:thumbsup:

But what are you complaining about, this is the new economy! We don't need jobs in the US, people who are laid off can just borrow against their home equity, and then sell their home when the price doubles and after they flip a few more homes, they can retire to Costa Rica! "Jobs" and "work" are so "old paradigm". :sarcasm:

Yeah this is bad news...

This is what a free market looks like.

:shrug:

Perhaps people should look into other forms of social organization?

Weird.

Weird.

You and I (non-corporations) have no freedom to hire people and make money overseas, but the big trans-national corporations somehow have this "freedom" and it is supposedly good for everyone to have this "freedom" even if it is actually a law, not a freedom. A statute enforced by international courts defining what is a multinational corporation and how a guy living in New York can make billions in another country without setting foot there, through the power of a legal contract backed by the carrot of US military and sanctions.

Hershey's has to cave to this "free market" or they'll implode. there is no reciprocity in this "free market" we promote, no restrictions to make sure people play fairly. even once excellent, socially responsible, giving companies have to 'turn to the dark side' just to survive. this is not good, and wholly not an isolated problem. this is a systemic evil turning evil companies into major market winners and turning good companies the same way out of sheer desperation for survival.

"free market" is an oxymoron. trade is never free, otherwise it'll be called a gift. and that's what this is, a gift to corporate raiders and greedy assholes to stripmine all that's good and decent in the marketplace to line their pockets with loot. raid and pillage, and you're either a raider or a victim. this 'deregulated' shit has got to stop!

It was Willie Wonka and magic for me as a kid. A CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Wow.

Viva Mexico!

(No Mexico cannot export sugar under NAFTA)

The Cuban vote in Flora keeps sugar quotas fixed. The corn vote keeps HFCS ( a health disaster) highly subsidized, sweeting everything and decimating Mexican corn farmers.

This isn't free trade / low wages people. It's corporate extortion.

Hershey's had an advantage with their dairy suppliers, but it's dwindling because they're getting screwed by such subsidies, restrictions, and kickbacks elsewhere in the political world. business is complex, and just because a company takes a certain action doesn't mean they're like the cowboy in the dark hat and curly mustache cackling away. sometimes our stupid politics makes it too difficult for some other businesses to resist trends, like outsourcing. some gleefully abandon everything for short-term profits; and then there's companies like Hershey's who historically worked with long-term profits and regional investments. we can't kick the latter in the teeth and blame them for running out on us like the former.

Milton was all about building community via commerce.

-Hoot

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/hersheys.asp

They are not closing down and outsourcing, but they are building another plant in Mexico while cutting back on the workforce here. Still sucks that jobs are being lost, but to say that "Hersheys is closing shop in Pennsylvania and outsourcing to Mexico" is a bit disingenuous.

No chocolate fer Kazzz... :cry:

www.snopes.com/politics/business/hersheys.asp

It's a habit I picked up from my mother back in the 60's.

I can see these assholes all sitting around in the great big board room. They know that people like us will boycott them, but they've already got that figured in to the equation. To them it doesn't matter at all. They will still turn profits on top of the giant tax break they will get. We have become a nation of cowards for allowing this to happen. For not dragging these fuckers from their trophy homes in the middle of the night to answer to an angry mob why they feel justified in fucking this country for a dime. I've had enough. In the end we'll sit here and continue to take this shit until we are dead, or we'll take to the streets and go after the people who make these decisions behind closed board-room doors. I see a lead-pipe carrying mob-rule revolution on the horizon. But you cowards won't be a part of it. After all, American Idol is on...

but neither do I see those mobs. :shrug:

Since its been shown that the OP is inaccurate.

How I LOVE them! LOL

sheesh.

Ok, if they're shipping the Hershey plant to Mexico, what happens to that
big Hershey amusement park???

Are they sending that to Mexico too?

Wouldn't it be just a bit odd, to have the plant stripped from our country--and
a big amusement park, that pays tribute to everything Hershey--still standing on
American soil???

It would be beyond ironic...and borderline macabre.

"Let's all ride the roller coaster as we contemplate what a
symbol of American destruction the company is now! Weeeeeee!"

As you will see, the OP is, in considerable part, urban myth.

...but when I posted what I wrote, the fact that this is an urban
myth was not posted. It was nowhere in sight.

So there ya go!

this could be a good thing.

This story is only partly true, many of the US jobs are remaining.

Read the details of what is really going on, and a copy of this exact email first.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/hersheys.asp

Seriously, what was the OP thinking, posting this crap without checking it out first?

He never learns either.

Yeah, I've known people like that. They actually read and believe unattributed crap that's been forwarded to their mailboxes.

While some lefties go this viral route, in my experience it's about 10:1 right-wing drivel being circulated.

I don't eat ANY chocolate candy, and especially not Hershey's.

I understand from someone who works for Hershey's that the candy bars contain rat feces and cockroach legs.

there are even tolerable amounts in the USDA regulations.

Do you think food is grown in hermetically sealed vaults?

They are opening a plant(s) in Mexico, but are not closing any U.S. production. 10% of their production will occur in Mexico. Neither Hershey Park or the plant in Hershey PA are slated to close. 90% of their current production will remain in the U.S..

However, we need to keep the pressure on this and every other U.S. corporation and let them know we will stop buying their products if they continue to abandon U.S..

After reading the entire thread I was getting worried. Well, as long as the amusement park does'nt close. Thanks.

I very seldom buy their candy anyway so at least I'm doing my bit part to get the message to them.

Just a guess here, but I'm thinking that response you got may have been just a wee bit scripted?

The only reason 10% is moving is to make sure the profits will be as high as expected, so the remaining 90% can move.

Oh, and I'm sure that "we" keeping the "pressure" on "them" will really matter.

I mean, Pelosi listens to "us" all the time, right?

I grew up in PA, close enough to Hershey to feel I have a stake in this.

When I find out they have, in fact, closed plants and laid off workers, provided early retirement or downsized, I'm done with them.

and for fuck's sake, people, don't recommend crap posts like this.

electricity costs too much in America, or they expect the Mexican workers to not smuggle out illegal choco bars to their families compared to the fat honky currently employed. :crazy:

:tinfoilhat:

:shrug:

Nestle? Made in Switzerland
Cadbury? Made in UK, except for most Cadbury sold in the US, which is made in the US by....Hershey.
Godiva? Made in US, but they also make half of their product in Belgium.
Mars? Made in the US, but also has international operations. Has been roundly criticized by PETA for their food testing practices.

Its a global economy. Shifting 10 percent of one's manufacturing to an overseas plant is hardly unusual in this day and age. Boycotting a company over such an action is more likely to lead to more job losses in the US than it is the creation of new jobs.

Sad but true. It was a HUGE ordeal when it happened, and the board has all since been replaced by the MS Hershey Foundation - but not in a good way -- it was because profits aren't large ENOUGH.

Oh, and greets from the heart of it in central PA. :hi:

:cry: I loved that stuff.

:D

:P

that's a mean company. they also are painfully tied historically to right-wing causes, at least the owners are. chocolate is an interesting murky world, and most of the big actors are downright mean. remember, these are histories intersecting with banana republics and sugar wars. Hershey's has had a far cleaner record than most. there's more than just taste in the decadence of chocolate....

There are SO many people out of work in the small town of Smiths Falls, Ontario.

The Hershey plant was the main employer and the town's biggest tourist attraction.

Already, Walmart has swooped in, ready to cash in on people desperate to save a buck or two.

I've already stopped buying Hershey's products and not just because of the layoffs of my friends and neighbors. Hershey was in Canada for two reasons - cheap sugar and the quality of our local milk products.

Now that they're in Mexico, god knows where they're getting their ingredients.

Wilbur's Chocolate is located down the road in Litiz PA and is a heck of a lot better in my opinion!

For instance I had worn levi's jeans all my life until they closed down their last us manufacturing plant a few years ago. when I looked in the closet at the ones I already had and that I was taking for granted they were made here in the us of a, hell no not to be. Oh well I save money now by not buying levi's brand anymore. Hell I'm not much of a chocolate hound anyway

90 percent of hershey's manufacturing is still located in the US. Its virtually certain that if you purchase a Hershey's bar, it was made in the US. Yet you're going to stop purchasing hershey's chocolate, a strategy that if followed by enough other people will result in Hershey's closing additional US plants, putting additional US workers out of jobs, etc.

Tell me again how this "boycott" is supposed to make things better?

my bad ;-)

all the beans come in through our port... we have a whole pier dedicated to it. Lots of jobs to be lost.

produced there. Shame on the greedy Hershey Company.

Saying goodbye to chocolate...:cry:

:kick:

Its not terrible, since its largely untrue.