The History of Reese?s Peanut Butter Chocolate
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the post-war period meant they required a much larger manufacturing
facility by the mid 1950s. Reese acquired a tract of land on the
western edge of Hershey where they built a state-of-the-art fully
automated 100,000 square-foot manufacturing facility. The factory,
located on Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, Pennsylvania, opened in August
1957.
Six years later, in 1963, the Hershey Chocolate Company, which was
formerly known as the Hershey Food Company, bought it’s neighbour, H.B.
Reese’s Candy Company for $23.5 million.
Hershey’s Reese’s peanut butter chocolate is distributed in the
United Kingdom by D&D Snacks UK Ltd. They won the import and
distribution contract in 2004 selling Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and , Nutrageous and Pieces now have a growing consumer fan-base in the United Kingdom.
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