Milton S Hershey SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR

Presented By: Sartaj Ahmed Sangi

Introduction to Milton Hershey

Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in a farmhouse near the Central Pennsylvania village of Derry Church.

Milton Hershey Father and Mother

Veronica Snavely Hershey  Henry Hershey

Derry church school

Milton Hershey’s education was necessarily hit-or-miss. In eight years of formal education,

he attended seven different schools. In 1871, Milton Hershey left school. 

apprenticed to a Lancaster County confectioner named Joseph Royer.

 The 14-year-old Hershey turned out to have a natural talent for candy-making

In the next four years learned the art and science of creating tasty confections.

Milton's first business. He set up his new shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and called the company the Hershey Chocolate Company.

Unfortunately, he was forced to declare bankruptcy.

After selling his shop in Philadelphia, he moved to Denver, Colorado. Here he learned how to make caramel.

He later moved from Denver and tried to establish himself in Chicago and New York, but found defeat in both places.

In 1883, he returned to Lancaster, PA and set up a candy business that specialized in producing caramel.

he purchased chocolate-making machinery from a German manufacturer.

Opened the Hershey Chocolate Factory in 1894 as an arm of the Lancaster Caramel Company.

On a trip to Jamestown, he meet with kitty and she get Hershey’s heart, and the couple was married in New York City on May 25, 1898.

In 1903, he purchased 1,200 acres of land near his birthplace and focused on mass-producing his milk chocolate products.

Hershey’s Chocolate Factory is founded and successful!

1915, Kitty died following a long and debilitating illness. Milton Hershey never remarried, 

Milton Hershey died Oct. 13, 1945 of a heart attack

Entrepreneur look of Milton Hershey

The Hershey Company

Largest producer of quality chocolate in North America

A global leader in chocolate and sugar confectionery.

Revenues of more than $5 billion

Hershey International

Hershey Retail Stores

Times Square

Chicago

Niagara Fall

Shanghai

Singapore

Dubai

How Milton Hershey got Success?

Where it began

• Hershey, Pennsylvania, home of the worlds largest chocolate factory, this is where Hershey makes its famous chocolate.

Born in the Jungle

• A tropical jungle, grows a very special tree…The coca tree

• In the cocoa tree each pod are about 20to40 coca beans.

• These beans given special flavor!

Chocolate key factor

The chocolate liquor

The cocoa butter

Sugar

Milk

• The new mixture dried into coarse, brown powder called chocolate crumb

• Hershey add cocoa butter to the crumb. Which bring out the rich taste and creamy texture of the chocolate

• After a little process Hershey make a great Hershey chocolate

Kisses!

Hershey make more than 80 kiss-shape products every day at Hershey and California factories

Experience the warm, luxurious, melt-in-your-mouth taste of chocolate!!!

Mr. Hershey’s vision was truly a success.

His factory is without a doubt the world’s largest chocolate factory

The Hershey Company remains committed to the vision and values of the man who started it all, so many years ago.

Hershey Trust Company

Milton Hershey School

(non-profit)

Milton Hershey School Trust

M.S. Hershey Foundation

Hershey Foods Corporation (31% owned)

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (100% owned)

Hershey Theatre

Hershey Museum

Hershey Gardens

Hershey Community Archives

Hershey School

1,200 students 10,000 acre

campus$65 million annual

budget ($96,000 per student)

Provides education, health care, room & board for disadvantaged children

“The main object…is to train young men to useful trades and occupations so that they can earn their own livelihood” Deed of Trust

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (100% owned)

Hershey Theatre

Hershey Museum

Hershey Gardens

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