
Ice Breakers candy
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Oct 12, 2026
How Halloween Became a Nearly Billion-Dollar Business for Hershey (ft. Hershey’s CGO)
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10:26Stacy TaffetGUEST
Um, gum and mint really helps, and so yeah, we are seeing tailwinds.
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10:29Stacy TaffetGUEST
Ice Breakers is, um, is growing, is gaining share in the market and doing very well.
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10:34John CroteauHOST
All right.
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10:34John CroteauHOST
So yesterday I was at Costco, I love Costco, and I reached for my enormous bag of DOTS pretzel sticks.
Is this as close to Willy Wonka as Memphis gets?
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2:35Kix PattersonHOST
But stay with us after that for more of today's news.
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2:38Mary CasciolaHOST
[upbeat music] Barbecue nachos, Dinstel's Chocolate, and Ice Breakers gum.
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2:47Mary CasciolaHOST
Those are three essential Memphis products.
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2:49Mary CasciolaHOST
And when it comes to Ice Breakers, a Hershey factory on Kansas Street is the exclusive global producer of the gum, making 300,000 pounds of it every single week.
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2:59Mary CasciolaHOST
Yet somehow, as John Kleiss recently reported, 30 years after Hershey arrived in Memphis, many people still don't know the factory exists or at least don't know about its size and scope.
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3:11Mary CasciolaHOST
John recently got a peek inside the factory, and he is here to tell us all about it.
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3:31John KlyceGUEST
I noticed that
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3:32Mary CasciolaHOST
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