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Hershey International celebrates beautiful stories of unsung 'Sheroes'

This year, Hershey International through a series of programmes across Brazil, India and Mexico celebrate often overlooked women in our society. The campaign gave voice and made more visible women who are making life better and having a positive impact on our society

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Hershey International celebrates beautiful stories of unsung 'Sheroes'

Hershey’s International Business has taken its values of “doing good” in the community and supporting important causes and turned them into innovative product and marketing programmes that make a difference in society.

This year, Hershey International put these beliefs into action with a series of programmes across Brazil, India and Mexico to celebrate often overlooked women in our society.

In all three markets, the teams changed the wrappers of the iconic Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bars to feature important and iconoclastic women who are making a difference. The campaign gave voice and made more visible women who are making life better and having a positive impact on our society. The bars feature these women and specifically highlight the words “Her” or “She,” which are both part of Hershey’s brand name.  Hershey’s bars became a canvas for the beautiful stories of unsung “Sheroes” offered in a celebratory memento pack. 

These cause-related marketing programmes have also shown resonance among consumers and have driven the Hershey’s brand forward in these markets.  The programmes also created opportunities for related digital and social media activation.

Hershey India collaborated with women leaders such as Kriti Bharti, Roxanne Davur, Sairee Chahal and Falguni Vasavada whose body of work and achievements were custom illustrated on Hershey’s chocolate bars by accomplished women illustrators. The list of illustrators included names such as Maanvi Kapur, Surabhi Banerjee, Anandhi Kumar and Anushri Saraogi respectively. These packs celebrating womanhood were presented to the women achievers by Hershey India and were revealed through a digital campaign. The campaign also encouraged women from across the nation to come forward and share their amazing stories.

In Mexico, the company celebrated local women entrepreneurs who have supported and developed less privileged women by sharing their picture and story on Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bars, promoting these women on their website and on limited-edition chocolate bars that generated strong consumer engagement. In Brazil, the team created an online art gallery that features more than 300 new female artists who provided more than 3,000 hours of art coaching and class for aspiring artist. The HerShe gallery is nested on Instagram @hersheybr.

“The recognition of the important contributions women make every day in our society and the need to create an outlet for their voice was a key insight that gave rise to our special packaging and marketing campaign,” said Rohit Grover, President, Hershey International. “So many women are doing incredible things every day and yet are largely unknown.  These programmes gave them a platform and brought them to light to celebrate their amazing contributions.”

In India, the campaign reached two million viewers in one week on Instagram highlights and generated user content of unsung “Sheroes” from the eyes of other women artists.

Started in Brazil in 2019, the concept has spread to other global markets and the US business also produced special bars celebrating women in 2021.

“As a company that embraces diversity and equality, we saw a unique insight into how we can make visible the role of forgotten or somewhat invisible women who make such an important difference in our society,” said Santhi Ramesh, Senior Director of Marketing, Innovation, Growth and Digital for Hershey International. “These campaigns celebrate women while communicating our brand values and the values we share with our consumers. The user-generated content was real and authentic and as a result, they not only broke through, but also resonated strongly with consumers.”

Herjit Bhalla, Vice-President, India and AEMEA at The Hershey Company said, “With the Her-She campaign, we at Hershey India took a step forward to celebrate some of the brave, intelligent and revolutionary women who displayed excellence in the face of insurmountable odds. This campaign for Hershey’s chocolate bars is a small token of our appreciation to encourage a journey towards positive change and celebrate these women leaders, because their stories need to be known.”

The Hershey Company is headquartered in Hershey, and is a leading snacks company known for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands, remarkable people and enduring commitment to help children succeed.

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