Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company

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Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (aka HE&R, and HERCO[1]) is a privately owned company of the Hershey Trust Company.

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts
Hershey Entertainment and Resorts

The company was originally founded by Milton S. Hershey as part of his chocolate company: what is now Hersheypark was initially promoted by including a picture postcard in each box of chocolate bars.

In 1927, Hershey split his enterprises into three companies, Hershey Chocolate Corporation which he took public, Hershey Corporation, which acquired the sugar estates in Cuba, and Hershey Estates.[2]

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The childless Hershey had previously founded a trust in 1909 to establish the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys, later renamed the Milton Hershey School. The Hershey Trust inherited Hershey Estates, Hershey Corporation, and a majority of the voting stock in Hershey Chocolate Corporation. The sugar operations in Cuba were sold in 1947 to the Cuban Atlantic Sugar Corporation.[3] Hershey Chocolate changed its name to Hershey Foods Corp in 1968,[4] and in 2005, to the The Hershey Company.[5]

Hershey Estates was involved in a number of enterprises:

Hershey Baking Hershey Greenhouse and Nursery
Hershey Cemetery Hershey Hospital
Hershey Cold Storage Hershey Laundry
Hershey Community Building Hershey Museum
Hershey Community Inn Hershey Park
Hershey Community Theatre Hershey Park Golf Club
Hershey Country Club and Juvenile Course Hershey Rose Garden
Hershey Dairy Hershey Sewerage Company
Hershey Department Store Hershey Telephone Company
Hershey Electric Company Hershey Transit Company
Hershey Experimental Candy Kitchen Hershey Water Company
Hershey Feed and Grain Hershey Zoo
Hershey Farms Hotel Hershey
Hershey Farming Implements Hershey Filling Station
Hershey Garage Real Estate, coal, and ice

The "Hershey Dairy" in that listing should not be confused with Hershey's Creamery, the manufacturers of Hershey Ice Cream. The creamery was founded in 1894 by Jacob N. Hershey, whose family was unrelated to Milton Hershey.

In 1976, the company changed its name from Hershey Estates to HERCO, Inc. and then in 1980 to Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, Inc. [2]

[edit] HE&R divisions

HE&R is split into three divisions:

[edit] Hershey Entertainment Group

[edit] Hershey Resorts Group

  • Hotel Hershey
    • The Spa at The Hotel Hershey
  • Hershey Lodge
  • Hershey Country Club
  • Hershey Highmeadow Campground

[edit] Commercial Group

  • Hershey Nursery
  • Hershey Laundry

[edit] See also

  1. ^ Hershey Company FAQ
  2. ^ a b The Hershey Archives
  3. ^ P. A. Staples
  4. ^ Convenience Store Decisions
  5. ^ Name change

[edit] External links


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