The Hershey Company is building a 250,000-square-foot chocolate facility in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to expand production capabilities for some of its candy brands, including Reese’s, Kit Kat, and Hershey’s.
The facility will be located on a 55-acre site near the company’s Reese’s plant, the company announced. The town of Hershey, which has streetlights shaped like Chocolate Kisses, already has corporate offices and two other Hershey manufacturing plants.
The expansion is part of a $1 billion investment in the company’s supply chain network. Along with the facility, Hershey will build 13 new production lines and upgrade 11 existing lines in other North American facilities….