Product type | Chocolate candy |
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Owner | The Hershey Company |
Produced by | The Hershey Company |
Country | Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Introduced | 1907 |
Related brands | Hershey bar Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme |
Markets | Worldwide |
Ambassador(s) | Milton Hershey |
Tagline | Say it with a Kiss |
Website | hersheyland.com/kisses |
Hershey's Kisses is a brand of chocolate first produced by the Hershey Company in 1907. The bite-sized pieces of chocolate have a distinctive conical shape, sometimes described as flat-bottomed teardrops. Hershey's Kisses chocolates are wrapped in squares of lightweight aluminum foil. A narrow strip of paper, called a plume, protrudes from the top of each Hershey's Kiss wrapper. Originally designed as a flag for the "Hershey's" brand, the printed paper plumes were added to the Kisses product wrapper in 1921 to distinguish the Hershey's Kiss from its competitors who were offering similar products.[1]