Hershey
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Youthquake rocking the status quo
Canadian Packaging editor George Guidoni reflects on the consumer trends of today’s Millennials
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Dollar stores make packaging sense
A monthly look at some of the hits and misses in the packaging world from the viewpoint of Joe Public, Canadian Packaging magazine’s revolving columnists. From the June 2017 issue.
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Agents Orange
When William Shakespeare penned one of his most famous quotes in Henry VI (Part 2) with an earnest pledge, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” the great playwright was clearly onto something well ahead of his time. And while the moral standards of modern civil society discourage us from recommending such harsh treatment for legal professionals who, after all, are just doing their jobs, every once in a while a case comes along that seems to set new contemptuous lows for the profession’s often-tattered reputation that, like it or not, is often of its own making.
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Mars Attacked!
The Hershey Company has sued its competitor Mars over allegations its Dove peanut putter milk chocolate Promises, has too many similar packaging elements to Hershey’s Reese’s (aka Reese, in Canada) Peanut Butter Cups, citing a similar package design and similar orange color on the outer packaging.
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Hershey And Ferrero Consider Options On Cadbury
Two chocolate makers–The Hershey Co. and Ferrero International SA–confirmed on November 18 that they are considering making a bid for Cadbury PLC, who are also being aggressively pursued by Kraft Foods Inc. via a hostile take-over, raising the possibility of…
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Rolling With The Changes
Alex Diaz is no stranger to change. As packaging systems engineer at The Hershey Company’s central manufacturing facility in the U.S. northeast, he’s gotten used to change being the only constant at the around-the-clock plant—manufacturer of the famed Hershey’s, Kit…
