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Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (aka HE&R, and HERCO^[1]) is a privately owned company of the Hershey Trust Company.

The company was originally founded by Milton S. Hershey as part of his chocolate company: what is now Hersheypark was initially promoted by including a picture postcard in each box of chocolate bars.

In 1927, Hershey split his enterprises into three companies, Hershey Chocolate Corporation which he took public, Hershey Corporation, which acquired the sugar estates in Cuba, and Hershey Estates.^[2]

Contents 1 HE&R divisions 1.1 Hershey Entertainment Group 1.2 Hershey Resorts Group 1.3 Commercial Group 2 See also 3 External links

The childless Hershey had previously founded a trust in 1909 to establish the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys, later renamed the Milton Hershey School. The Hershey Trust inherited Hershey Estates, Hershey Corporation, and a majority of the voting stock in Hershey Chocolate Corporation. The sugar operations in Cuba were sold in 1947 to the Cuban Atlantic Sugar Corporation.^[3] Hershey Chocolate changed its name to Hershey Foods Corp in 1968,^[4] and in 2005, to the The Hershey Company.^[5]

Hershey Estates was involved in a number of enterprises:

Hershey Baking	Hershey Greenhouse and Nursery
Hershey Cemetery	Hershey Hospital
Hershey Cold Storage	Hershey Laundry
Hershey Community Building	Hershey Museum
Hershey Community Inn	Hershey Park
Hershey Community Theatre	Hershey Park Golf Club
Hershey Country Club and Juvenile Course	Hershey Rose Garden
Hershey Dairy	Hershey Sewerage Company
Hershey Department Store	Hershey Telephone Company
Hershey Electric Company	Hershey Transit Company
Hershey Experimental Candy Kitchen	Hershey Water Company
Hershey Feed and Grain	Hershey Zoo
Hershey Farms	Hotel Hershey
Hershey Farming Implements	Hershey Filling Station
Hershey Garage	Real Estate, coal, and ice

The "Hershey Dairy" in that listing should not be confused with Hershey's Creamery, the manufacturers of Hershey Ice Cream. The creamery was founded in 1894 by Jacob N. Hershey, whose family was unrelated to Milton Hershey.

In 1976, the company changed its name from Hershey Estates to HERCO, Inc. and then in 1980 to Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, Inc. ^[2]

HE&R is split into three divisions:

• Hersheypark
• Hersheypark Arena
• Hersheypark Stadium
• GIANT Center
• ZOOAMERICA North American Wildlife Park
• The Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Stadium
• Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park

• Hotel Hershey
  • The Spa at The Hotel Hershey
• Hershey Lodge
• Hershey Country Club
• Hershey Highmeadow Campground

• Hershey Nursery
• Hershey Laundry

1. ^ Hershey Company FAQ
2. ^ ^{a b} The Hershey Archives
3. ^ P. A. Staples
4. ^ Convenience Store Decisions
5. ^ Name change

• Official website