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Activity 3...Choose any one of the following Links to complete the seven questions.
Elise McMillan and her brother Evan co founded The Chocolate Farm in Englewood, Colorado, in the late 1990s.
Milton Hershey (more history here)broke ground for his chocolate factory near Lancaster, PA in 1903. It was the beginning of what would become Hershey Foods Corporation.
Forrest Mars, Sr. invited Bruce Murrie, an investment banker and son of the Hershey company president, to be his partner in M&M Ltd. The M&Ms we still eat today were first sold to the public in 1941. The letters in "M&M" stand for Mars & Murrie. Eventually, Murrie left the business but Forest Mars became the owner of Mars, Inc.
Wally Amos launched the Famous Amos Cookie Company in a Hollywood, CA storefront on Sunset Boulevard in 1975.
TIP: If a company has incorporated and is publicly traded, another source of information will be Hoover’s Online Directory.
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