Hershey Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Fourth Consecutive Year
September 20 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Selected to DJSI North
America Index for Fifth Straight Year
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) has been named again to the
prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America
Indices (DJSI).
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Hershey is one of only 11 companies from the Food, Beverage and
Tobacco Industry in the World Index and ranked in the 91 percentile
overall. The company received top scores in health and nutrition,
packaging environmental impact, and water related risks categories.
This is the fourth consecutive year that Hershey has been included
in the World Index and the fifth year for the North American
Index.
The DJSI Indices are regarded as the highest standard for
evaluating corporate sustainability based on Environmental, Social,
and Governance factors. Hershey’s DJSI ranking puts the company’s
sustainability performance among the top in the world.
“Hershey has a vision of ‘sharing goodness with the world’ that
is embedded in our belief that company performance is linked to
responsible and sustainable operations,” said Michele Buck, Chief
Operating Officer at The Hershey Company. “Operating ethically as
we strive to deliver strong performance deepens our sense of
purpose and benefits our shareholders, employees and the
communities in which we live and work.”
Hershey’s global shared social purpose, called Nourishing Minds,
is built on the belief that bright futures for children start with
basic nutrition so they can focus on their studies rather than
their stomachs. With a goal to nourish one million minds by 2020,
the program has become the cornerstone for how Hershey embeds a
social focus into how it applies its knowledge and resources to
help communities.
Hershey recently issued its latest CSR report – titled “Shared
Goodness” – showcasing progress made against a variety of priority
issues. Learn more about Hershey’s commitment to Shared Goodness
and Energize Learning: Food for the children.
About The Hershey
Company
The Hershey Company, headquartered in Hershey, Pa., is a global
confectionery leader known for bringing goodness to the world
through its chocolate, sweets, mints and other great-tasting
snacks. Hershey has approximately 22,000 employees around the world
who work every day to deliver delicious, quality products. The
company has more than 80 brands around the world that drive more
than $7.4 billion in annual revenues, including such iconic brand
names as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Ice
Breakers and Brookside. Building on its core business, Hershey
is expanding its portfolio to include a broader range of
delicious snacks. The company remains focused on growing
its presence in key international markets while continuing to
extend its competitive advantage in North America.
At Hershey, goodness has always been about more than delicious
products. For more than 120 years, Hershey has been committed
to operating fairly, ethically and sustainably. Hershey
founder, Milton Hershey, created the Milton Hershey School in 1909
and since then the company has focused on giving underserved
children the skills and support they need to be successful. Today,
the company continues this social purpose through 'Nourishing
Minds,' a global initiative that provides basic nutrition
to help children learn and grow. From neighborhoods across the
United States to the streets of Shanghai and Mumbai and villages of
West Africa, our goal is to nourish one million minds by 2020.
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