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HERSHEY’S KISSES Chocolates were first manufactured in 1907 by the Hershey Chocolate Company in Derry, Pennsylvania.
Like many success stories, there are multiple versions of how KISSES Chocolate got its name and no one knows for certain which one is the truth! One story has it that the machines that extrude the KISSES Chocolates make a sound like a kiss. Another possibility is that “kiss” was a common confectionery term at the time to refer to a small piece of candy and that Milton Hershey was smart enough to protect his own product’s popularity by registering a trademark for the name “HERSHEY’S KISSES” in 1921.
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In 2014, Kisses were the second most popular packaged candy product for Valentine’s Day — a category that excludes the heart-shaped chocolate boxes — and the fourth most popular in overall candy sales, according to Nielsen sales reports provided by the Hershey Company. For the holiday demand, Hershey produces more than eight million pounds of Kisses (which, at about 95 Kisses per pound, comes out to more than 750,000,000 individual candies). Even with wrapping machines that can each crank out 1,300 Kisses a minute, it would still take almost a month at Hershey’s typical output to manufacture that many.
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