Hershey Creamery Company

Hershey Creamery Company

Company type	Public
Traded as	Expert Market: HRCR
Industry	Ice cream manufacturer
Founded	1894; 130 years ago (1894) in Lancaster, U.S.
Founders	Jacob Hershey Isaac Hershey John Hershey Paris Hershey Eli Hershey
Headquarters	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , U.S.
Area served	Northeastern and Eastern United States
Key people	George Holder, president Walter Holder, vice president of manufacturing Tom Holder, vice president of sales and marketing Robert Campbell, controller
Products	Ice cream, sherbet, ice cream cake, frozen slab, smoothies
Number of employees	450
Website	hersheyicecream.com

Hershey Creamery Company, also known as Hershey's Ice Cream, is an American creamery that produces ice cream, sorbet, sherbet, frozen yogurt, and other frozen desserts such as smoothies and frozen slab-style ice cream mixers. It was founded by Jacob Hershey and four of his brothers in 1894 and taken over by the Holder family in the 1920s. The company was one of the first to offer consumers pre-packaged ice cream pints.

The family-owned business has approximately 450 employees and operates 30 distribution centers in 28 states across the Eastern and Northeastern United States. It is a publicly traded company, with its stocks listed only on Pink Sheets as the company offers a limited number of shares to potential shareholders. In 1998, it modernized its operations to increase efficiency and reduce overhead.

Hershey Creamery Company has no connection to The Hershey Company, a candy manufacturer, though both companies were founded in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the same year. The companies have had a tumultuous relationship marked by multiple lawsuits over trademark issues. In the mid-1990s, the companies settled their most recent legal battles out of court, with Hershey Creamery Company agreeing to add a disclaimer to its ice cream products to note that it is not affiliated with The Hershey Company.^[1]