Hershey Company

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $5.5M in lobbying spend across 34 quarterly filings, Hershey Company is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 16 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$5.5M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$1.1M
2019	$452K
2020	$695K
2021	$398K
2022	$476K
2023	$385K
2024	$818K
2025	$1.2M

Issues Lobbied

Food Industry Trade Agriculture Environment Transportation Taxation Homeland Security Budget/Appropriations Labor Issues Communications Tourism Commodities Civil Rights Tariffs Copyright/Patent Energy

Lobbying Firms

The Hershey Company

Lobbyists

Joanna Turner Megan Farrell Janine Smith Limer Batista Amadi Courtney Clark

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Food Industry, Trade, Agriculture, Environment, Transportation and 11 more

•On package labeling including ingredients, calories, nutrient content claims and proposed revisions of nutrition facts panel.

•232, 302 trade actions; NAFTA

•2018 Farm Bill Reauthorization
•Sugar program structure.
•Federal feeding and nutrition programs and issues associated with processed foods and beverages.

•Crop sustainability

•2018 Farm Bill Reauthorization
•Sugar program structure. Dairy pricing.
•Federal feeding and nutrition programs and issues associated with processed foods and beverages.