Hershey's vs MarketAxess
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Major US chocolate company with $11B revenue; Reese's and Hershey's chocolate plus Kit Kat under license managing cocoa inflation from 2024 historic price spikes competing with Mars.
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The Hershey Company is one of the world's largest chocolate manufacturers, producing iconic confectionery brands including Hershey's chocolate bars, Reese's peanut butter cups, Kit Kat (in the US, under license from Nestlé), Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Mounds, and Kisses. Listed on NYSE (NYSE: HSY) and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania (a company town literally built around the chocolate factory), Hershey generates approximately $11 billion in annual revenue and commands significant market share in the US confectionery market.\n\nHershey's product portfolio spans milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, peanut butter chocolate combinations (Reese's is consistently one of the top-selling confectionery brands in the US), hard candy (Jolly Rancher), gum, and snack bars. The Reese's brand is Hershey's largest and most strategically important, generating billions in annual sales with consistent category leadership in the peanut butter confectionery segment. Hershey also owns salty snacks (SkinnyPop popcorn, Dot's Pretzels) as part of its snacking expansion.\n\nIn 2025, Hershey faces significant cocoa cost inflation — cocoa prices reached historic highs in 2024 as West African crop failures created supply shortages, forcing Hershey and other chocolate manufacturers to take significant price increases that have pressured volume. The company competes with Mars, Inc. (M&Ms, Snickers, Twix), Mondelez (Cadbury, Toblerone), and Lindt for confectionery market share. Hershey's 2025 strategy focuses on managing cocoa cost volatility through pricing and hedging, growing its salty snacks segment as a less cocoa-dependent growth lever, and maintaining brand equity of core chocolate brands despite price increases.
New York electronic bond trading (NASDAQ: MKTX) $763M FY2024 revenue; Open Trading $2T+ liquidity, 40% US IG bond electronification, portfolio trading growth competing with Tradeweb and Bloomberg.
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MarketAxess Holdings Inc. is a New York City-based electronic fixed income trading platform — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: MKTX) as an S&P 500 Financials component — operating the leading electronic trading marketplace for US investment-grade corporate bonds, US high-yield bonds, emerging market bonds, municipal bonds, and US Treasury securities through approximately 850 employees globally. In fiscal year 2024, MarketAxess reported revenues of $763 million with record trading volumes in US investment-grade bonds and emerging market credit, as the multi-year electronification trend in bond markets continued to shift institutional fixed income trading from voice broker-dealer phone execution to electronic all-to-all trading on MarketAxess's Open Trading marketplace. CEO Chris Concannon (joined 2023, formerly Cboe Global Markets president) leads MarketAxess's strategy of expanding market share beyond the institutional investment-grade core into rate products (US Treasuries, agency securities), high-yield, and portfolio trading as fixed income electronification accelerates — currently approximately 40% of US investment-grade bonds trade electronically versus 15% in 2015. MarketAxess's Open Trading protocol (anonymous all-to-all price discovery between buy-side, sell-side, and market makers) generated over $2 trillion in liquidity provision in 2024, reducing transaction costs versus bilateral dealer quotes by an average of $0.28 per $100 face value.
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