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The Hershey Company specializes in producing and selling chocolate-based products and candies. The group is involved in producing and selling snacks, beverages, garnishing and cooking products, chewing gum, etc. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - chocolate-based products and confectionery (93.6%): Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Lancaster, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Whoppers, Scharffen Berger, Dagoba, etc. brands; - snacks (6.4%): Hershey, Reese, Heath, Krave, Popwell, SkinnyPop, Pirate's Booty, Oatmega, Paqui, etc. brands. At the end of 2020, the group has 9 production sites in the United States (6), Mexico (2) and Malaysia. Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United States (86.4%), North America (4.6%) and other (9%).