<Tr> <Th> Number of employees </Th> <Td> 14,800 (2014) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.hersheys.com/en_us/home.html </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hershey Company, known until April 2005 as the Hershey Foods Corporation and commonly called Hershey's, is an American company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world . Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hershey's Chocolate World . It was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894 as the Hershey Chocolate Company, a subsidiary of his Lancaster Caramel Company . Hershey's chocolate is available across the United States, due to their wide network of distribution . They have three mega distribution centers, with modern technology and labor management systems . Hershey's products are sold in over 60 countries worldwide . In addition, Hershey is a member of the World Cocoa Foundation . It is also associated with the Hersheypark Stadium and the Giant Center . </P> <P> After an apprenticeship to a confectioner in 1873, Milton S. Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia . This candy shop was only open for six years, after which Hershey apprenticed with another confectioner in Denver, where he learned to make caramel . After another failed business attempt in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where in 1886 he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company . The use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful, and in 1900, after seeing chocolate - making machines for the first time at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000 (equal to $29,416,000 today), and began to concentrate on chocolate manufacturing, stating to people who questioned him, "Caramels are just a fad, but chocolate is a permanent thing ." </P>

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