In The Emperors of Chocolate, Jol Glenn Brenner reveals the bitter legal and marketing fights, espionage, deception, obsessive secrecy, and personality clashes that dominate Hershey and Mars – and the candy industry as a whole. Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars Sr. were both great business men. They ran their businesses in a high degree of opposition. They each had their own strong and weak point in the companies. Many national and local corporations have modeled their own businesses in the same fashion.
The Emperors of Chocolate shows how both Mr. Hershey and Mr. Mars are notable philanthropists and extraordinary businessmen who many people admire and respect. Milton Hershey was a magnanimous philanthropist who spent hundreds of millions of dollars and hours to create a town and orphanage to fulfill his altruistic dreams. Forrest Mars Sr. was a short-tempered perfectionist who yelled at anyone who failed to meet his standards. Hershey experimented and took chances in his company whereas, Mars was much more serious and relied more on statistics. What made Forrests blood rush was the thrill of mastering new opportunities and taming uncharted worlds, the author writes.
Like Milton Hershey, he was driven by his visions; but where Milton Hershey saw utopia, Forrest Mars saw conquest. Forrest Mars Sr. and Milton Hershey turned their two companies from small mom-and-pop operations into international forces, over the last century. While they may have started small, their products – Mars Snickers and M&Ms and Hersheys milk chocolate bars and Kisses – are The companies are completely contradictory of each other. Mars was obsessed with having everything and everyone in a clean, neat, and orderly manner. Mars factories floors were scrubbed every forty-five minutes. Every night before the workers went home every bit of machinery had to be spotless and shining.
The Business plan on Hershey Company
Abstract The Hershey Company, known until April 2005 as the Hershey Foods Corporation and commonly called Hershey’s, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hershey’s Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894 as the Hershey Chocolate Company, a subsidiary of his Lancaster Caramel ...
Milton focused on more of the way his chocolate tasted and make new and more candies. Mars Inc. has spent million of dollars on marketing their new products trying to push, to sell, the tons of candies has it produced. Hershey, effortlessly, didnt even have a marketing department until the late 1960s. Overall, both companies are run with remarkable precision but, they differ where their strengths and weaknesses lie. Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars Sr. are model businessmen.
Their companies, Hershey Food Corporation and Mars Incorporated, have inspired many other people to start businesses and model their business after one or the other. I would do the same in starting my own business, but I would use both men and companies as standard. Combined, they would be the ultimate candy conglomerate dominating the candy industry. I would use the ingenuity of Hershey and the business sense of Mars to create an enormously vast candy conglomerate. I think there is no comparison of the two men and their companies. They are both on the same level of preeminence.
If you combine their morals and ideas, you would fill in the weak links and strengthen their After years of competition, what began as small family – owned businesses have grown into multi-billion dollar industrirs increasingly dominated by corporate leviathans, fighting for shelf space and swallowing their smaller The Emperors of Chocolate was a very good book full of interesting, little facts of the elaborate world of chocolate production and sales. The book depicts the industry as a secret, underground world of espionage in which it actually is. I think the progression of the chapters are supposed to take the reader from the past to the present, but the constant switching between Hershey and Mars from chapter to chapter is disconcerting and makes for a disjointed read. However, it is still an interesting story and makes me crave chocolate while I’m reading!
