Benzinga’s weekly Stock Wars matches up two leaders in a major industry sector with the goal of determining which company is the better investment. This week, the duel is between a pair of leading chocolate providers: Hershey Co. and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.. The Case for Hershey This company traces its heritage back to Milton Hershey, who was apprenticed to a confectioner in 1871 when he was 14 years old. After five years, the 19-year-old Hershey—whose formal education never went beyond the fourth grade—opened his own confectionary business in Philadelphia. Today, Hershey is headquartered in a Pennsylvania town named after the company’s founder and offers more than 90 brands created by a global workforce of roughly 17,000 employees. While chocolate is the company’s most celebrated output, it is also known for the non-chocolate snack foods and candies including SkinnyPop, Pirate’s Booty, Jolly Rancher, and Ice Breakers. The company has been …