Hershey Chocolate Company.
His family connection was significant because Hershey was a major chocolate producer. The partnership between Mars and Murrie helped provide access to chocolate during the early years of the candy’s production.
Although the two men came from different candy-industry families, their collaboration helped bring the new product to market.
When Were M&M’s Invented?
M&M’s were introduced in 1941.
The candy was developed during a period when portable, convenient foods were especially useful. One commonly told account connects the inspiration for the candy to chocolate-coated sweets that Forrest Mars encountered in Europe, where a hard sugar shell helped
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