Lane Hartzel is now an official chocolate taste tester for Hershey's.It started with a school career day project. Lane's parents didn't know what their son could pick since he's non-verbal and non-mobile. His teachers suggested a chocolate critic. Hershey quickly reached out after hearing about it on social media.

He came upon a newspaper ad by Milton Hershey, who wanted people to operate dairy farms that helped create his milk chocolate. Reese had the experience and was hired by Hershey himself. The two got to know each other and began a lifelong friendship.

tycoon Milton Hershey The Kiss was introduced in 1907. Now, more than a century later, most consumers would never imagine the little chocolate drops were created by someone other than candy tycoon Milton Hershey.

In 1919, 40-year-old H.B. Reese was laid off from the Hershey Chocolate Company, where he managed Hershey's experimental dairy farm. Reese needed to support his 10 children and legally blind wife Blanche Edna Hyson.

It's the Hershey's "Her for She" bar in Canada that's garnering the most attention, and even calls for a boycott after five women were chosen to have their images on the five different versions of the wrapper, and one was transgender activist Fae Johnstone. "The Chocolate's out of the wrapper!" Johnstone tweeted.

During the 19th century, KISS was a common name for a variety of bite-size confectionery products. Our founder, Milton Hershey, was the first to use the term for a bite-size piece of milk chocolate and registered the name Hershey's Kisses as a trademark in 1923.

Through trial and error he created his own formula for milk chocolate. In 1903 he began construction on what was to become the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant. The facility, completed in 1905, was designed to manufacture chocolate using the latest mass production techniques.

1937 was a tumultuous year in Hershey. In January the CIO, a national trade union, organized Hershey Chocolate factory workers, establishing the plant's first labor union. In April, the Hershey factory workers held Pennsylvania's first sit-down strike following a breakdown in labor contract negotiations.

The Hershey Company traces its origins to the 1880s, when Milton S. Hershey founded the Lancaster Caramel Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After seeing German-made chocolate-processing machinery at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate business.

The tin of Rowntree's chocolate, which was manufactured in York in 1899 and dubbed the "most controversial chocolate ever made", only has one piece missing. The chocolates were a gift sent to troops fighting in the Boer War on behalf of Queen Victoria, but sparked a row because Rowntree's owners were pacifists.

The Cookie Department Inc said Hershey's threatened trademark lawsuit accusing it of borrowing Kisses' "conical configuration" without permission was in retaliation for its own lawsuit accusing Hershey of infringing its "Tough Cookie" mark.

In 1907, Milton Hershey took a chance in a unique chocolate stamping machine that created bite-sized drops of his iconic American milk chocolate. At the time, bars of chocolate dominated the candy market, and the new, tiny treats were untested with the American public.