The Hershey Company (HSY)

The Hershey Company (HSY) - 24/7 Wall Street

Hershey (NYSE:HSY) ranked first in the Corebrands study followed by Coca Cola (NYSE:KO) and Campbell (NYSE:CPB) have spent billions of dollars to build brands which are universally recognized The second is that weak companies with low market caps may find that their tattered brands make up an especially large portion of their fallen share prices This is probably because their companies are worth so little 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - 24/7 Wall Street

In just the last week we have seen dividend hikes from Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE: BWP), Colgate Palmolive Co (NYSE: CL), Hasbro Inc (NYSE: HAS), Hershey Co (NYSE: HSY), L 3 Communications Holdings Inc (NYSE: LLL), and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) We have covered these with an outlook for what lies ahead for each these companies in their dividend rates and as a starting point for other big companies we think will hike their dividends Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) continued with its policy of an annual dividend hike 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Jack Russo at Edward Jones

Sales advanced 22 percent to $141 billion Hershey raised prices last year to offset higher costs for cocoa, sugar and dairy ingredients, Jack Russo , an analyst for Edward Jones & Co in St Louis, said yesterday in a telephone interview 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Thomas Graves at Standard & Poor''s Equity Group

Standard & Poor's analyst Tom Graves recently lowered his rating on Hershey shares and told clients that Kraft Foods Inc's acquisition of Cadbury "will weaken Hershey's competitive position and limit Hershey's international expansion opportunities" WHY IT MATTERS: Hershey's competitors are consolidating, potentially putting Hershey in a tougher competitive position globally 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Deutsche Bank

Deutsche analyst says, "We are reinstating our opinion on Hershey with a hold rating vs our previous SELL 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Erin Swanson at Morningstar

"A bidding war for Cadbury is highly unlikely given the backing of the (Cadbury) board" for Kraft's offer, said Erin Swanson, a stock analyst at Morningstar Inc Topping Kraft's bid would be "very challenging" for Hershey, a considerably smaller company than Kraft, Swanson said 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Erin Swanson at Morningstar

But with the British maker of Dairy Milk and Creme Eggs agreeing to be bought by Chicago based Velveeta cheese and Ritz cracker maker Kraft, Hershey will have to return to a strategy of expanding internationally through joint ventures and small acquisitions "It definitely puts Hershey back to where it was a couple of months ago, focused on its domestic operations," Morningstar analyst Erin Swanson said Any attempt to become a global confectioner would have to be done on a piece meal basis, through smaller acquisitions "They would not be able to acquire that whole platform all at once as if they acquired Cadbury," she said 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Matt Arnold at Edward Jones

Hershey, at No 4 with less than 5 percent of the market, sells Cadbury in the United States under a licensing deal and could eventually lose that to Kraft "This might finally force Hershey to think about who they are and who they want to be and act more boldly," said Edward Jones food industry analyst Matt Arnold But there might not be any bold moves left in the candy business "There are not that many assets on the market that do not have any major barriers to acquisition," said Ildiko Szalai, Food company analyst at Euromonitor International 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Matt Arnold at Edward Jones

Hershey, at No 4 with less than 5 percent of the market, sells Cadbury in the United States under a licensing deal and could eventually lose that to Kraft "This might finally force Hershey to think about who they are and who they want to be and act more boldly," said Edward Jones food industry analyst Matt Arnold But there might not be any bold moves left in the candy business "There are not that many assets on the market that do not have any major barriers to acquisition," said Ildiko Szalai, Food company analyst at Euromonitor International 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Erin Swanson at Morningstar

But with the British maker of Dairy Milk and Creme Eggs agreeing to be bought by Chicago based Velveeta cheese and Ritz cracker maker Kraft, Hershey will have to return to a strategy of expanding internationally through joint ventures and small acquisitions [ID:nL9294700] "It definitely puts Hershey back to where it was a couple of months ago, focused on its domestic operations," Morningstar analyst Erin Swanson said Any attempt to become a global confectioner would have to be done on a piece meal basis, through smaller acquisitions "They would not be able to acquire that whole platform all at once as if they acquired Cadbury," she said 

The Hershey Company (HSY) - Erin Swanson at Morningstar

"A bidding war for Cadbury is highly unlikely given the backing of the (Cadbury) board" for Kraft's offer, said Erin Swanson, a stock analyst at Morningstar Inc Topping Kraft's bid would be "very challenging" for Hershey, a considerably smaller company than Kraft, Swanson said