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Hershey's competitors and similar companies include Pladis and Lindt & Spruengli.

	Hershey The Hershey Company is a company manufacturing and selling confectionery products.	Pladis Pladis is a confectionery company.	Lindt & Spruengli Lindt & Spruengli produces and sells chocolate products.
Founding Date	Founding Date 1894	Founding Date 2016	Founding Date 1845
Type	Type Public	Type Subsidiary	Type Public
Tags	Tags Food & Beverage Manufacturing & Industrial nutrition processed food	Tags Food & Beverage distribution processed food	Tags Food & Beverage Manufacturing & Industrial Retail distribution
Locations	Locations Hershey, US HQ Mississauga, CA Mumbai, IN Tokyo, JP Seoul, KR Senai, MY El Salto, MX see more	Locations London, GB HQ Bruxelles, BE Vertou, FR Ogli, IN Dublin, IE Zaandam, NL Lagos, NG see more	Locations Kilchberg, CH HQ Marsden Park, AU Wien, AT São Paulo, BR Toronto, CA Shanghai, CN Karlin, CZ see more
Employees	Employees 18,6503% increase	Employees 3,333	Employees 14,973
Financial
Revenue (est.)	Revenue (est.) $11.7b (FY, 2025)	Revenue (est.) £1.1b (FY, 2017)	Revenue (est.) CHF5.9b (FY, 2025)
Cost of goods	Cost of goods $7.8b (FY, 2025)	Cost of goods £764.5m (FY, 2017)	Cost of goods CHF2.2b (FY, 2025)
Gross profit	Gross profit $3.9b (FY, 2025)	Gross profit £384.4m (FY, 2017)	Gross profit CHF3.7b (FY, 2025)
Net income	Net income $883.3m (FY, 2025)	Net income (£142.7m) (FY, 2017)	Net income CHF726.7m (FY, 2025)

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London, GB

Pladis is a confectionery company.

Kilchberg, CH

Employees

14,973

Lindt & Spruengli produces and sells chocolate products.

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