Food and Drink Candylicious: Round 6, Semifinals

**Rain Man** · 06-22-2016, 11:02 AM

The peanut butter cup made the Reese family very wealthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese%...ut_Butter_Cups

The H.B. Reese Candy Company

The Harry Burnett Reese Candy Co. was established in the basement of Reese's house in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[1] Reese had originally worked at a Hershey dairy farm, and from the start he used Hershey Chocolate in his confections. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were his most popular candy, and Reese eventually discontinued his other lines.

Reese died on May 16, 1956, passing the company to his six sons, Robert, John, Ed, Ralph, Harry, and Charles Richard Reese. On July 2, 1963, the Reese brothers merged the H.B. Reese Candy Company with the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in a tax-free stock-for-stock merger with the six Reese brothers receiving 666,316 Hershey common shares, valued in 1963 at $23.5 million. In 2013, after 50 years of stock splits, these original shares now represent sixteen million Hershey common shares valued in excess of $1 billion, paying $31 million in annual cash dividends.[2] The H.B. Reese Candy Company is maintained as a subsidiary of Hershey because the Reese plant workforce is not unionized, unlike the main Hershey plant. As of September 20, 2012, Reese's is the best-selling candy brand in the United States with sales of $2.603 billion, and is the fourth-best-selling candy brand globally with sales of $2.679 billion—only $76 million (2.8%) of its sales is from outside the United States market. Additionally, the H.B. Reese Candy Company manufactures the Kit Kat in the United States, which had 2012 U.S. sales of $948 million.[3]

View Poll Results: Pick the candy you would most like right now - one from each pair.
Heat 1	1	1.27%
Rolo	31	39.24%
Peanut M&Ms	46	58.23%
Heat 2	1	1.27%
Snickers	47	59.49%
100 Grand Bar	31	39.24%
Heat 3	1	1.27%
Starburst	33	41.77%
Reese's Pieces	45	56.96%
Heat 4	1	1.27%
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups	65	82.28%
Dove Candy Bar	14	17.72%
None of the above. I make my own candy with pure cane sugar that I harvest myself.	1	1.27%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 79. You may not vote on this poll

06-22-2016, 11:02 AM	#1
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-452449 VARSITY	The peanut butter cup made the Reese family very wealthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese%...ut_Butter_Cups The H.B. Reese Candy Company The Harry Burnett Reese Candy Co. was established in the basement of Reese's house in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[1] Reese had originally worked at a Hershey dairy farm, and from the start he used Hershey Chocolate in his confections. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were his most popular candy, and Reese eventually discontinued his other lines. Reese died on May 16, 1956, passing the company to his six sons, Robert, John, Ed, Ralph, Harry, and Charles Richard Reese. On July 2, 1963, the Reese brothers merged the H.B. Reese Candy Company with the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in a tax-free stock-for-stock merger with the six Reese brothers receiving 666,316 Hershey common shares, valued in 1963 at $23.5 million. In 2013, after 50 years of stock splits, these original shares now represent sixteen million Hershey common shares valued in excess of $1 billion, paying $31 million in annual cash dividends.[2] The H.B. Reese Candy Company is maintained as a subsidiary of Hershey because the Reese plant workforce is not unionized, unlike the main Hershey plant. As of September 20, 2012, Reese's is the best-selling candy brand in the United States with sales of $2.603 billion, and is the fourth-best-selling candy brand globally with sales of $2.679 billion—only $76 million (2.8%) of its sales is from outside the United States market. Additionally, the H.B. Reese Candy Company manufactures the Kit Kat in the United States, which had 2012 U.S. sales of $948 million.[3] __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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