About Hershey Trust Company

Hershey Trust Company is an independent trust company founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1905. The stock of Hershey Trust Company is wholly owned by the Milton Hershey School Trust. In 1909, Milton Hershey created the Milton Hershey School Trust and appointed Hershey Trust Company as its trustee to provide investment management and administration for the School Trust. Mr. Hershey established the School Trust to provide for the health, education and welfare of orphaned boys. The School’s original enrollment was ten students. Today, more than 100 years later, Mr. Hershey’s legacy continues. The School currently has an enrollment of approximately 1,700 students, with an equal mix of boys and girls. Enrollment is expected to grow to 2,000 students over the next several years.

Because of Hershey Trust Company’s consistent, superior investment management of Milton Hershey’s original funding of 486 acres of land and $60 million in Hershey Chocolate Company stock, the School Trust’s assets have grown to a value of nearly $8 billion today.

For years, Hershey Trust Company has made available its outstanding investment, financial planning, and administrative expertise and experience to individual and institutional investors. Due to some recent regulatory changes, Hershey Trust Company is now able to provide our individual and institutional clients access to specialized asset managers previously available only to the School Trust. These are asset managers to whom individual investors would not otherwise have access because of the managers’ minimum investment requirements. Therefore, our clients can participate in the same investment disciplines, styles and strategies that have produced outstanding results for the Milton Hershey School Trust.