Federal contractor · HERSHEY, PA

HERSHEY COMPANY (THE)

HERSHEY COMPANY (THE) received $481K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Since FY2017: $2.4M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($481K).

Obligations · FY2026
$481K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
MZLJN93132A6
Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 260.3KFY2017
  2. 100.1KFY2018
  3. 350.2KFY2019
  4. 149.5KFY2020
  5. 236.5KFY2021
  6. 357.4KFY2022
  7. 322.1KFY2023
  8. 182.1KFY2024
  9. 481KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$481K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$481K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Dauphin County, PA$481K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. 8511983941!CANDY, PAN COATED, PEANUT BUT$444K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Dauphin County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 18, 2026 – Mar 18, 2026· SPE3S126F0661
  2. 8511793771!CANDY, PAN COATED, PEANUT BUT$37K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Dauphin County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 17, 2025 – Dec 17, 2025· SPE3S126F0194

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. IKARIYA, K.K.$428.2K−32% in FY2026
    YOKOSUKA, JPN · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other food manufacturing
  2. PLUM SELECT LLC$1.1M+44% in FY2026
    GREENSBORO, NC · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other food manufacturing
  3. WATANABE VEGETABLE PROCESSING LLC$1.1M−17% in FY2026
    KULA, HI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other food manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • THE HERSHEY COMPANYAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.2M
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.5M
$2.5M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$64.5K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$385K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$684K
    5 reports
  3. 2025$1.2M
    4 reports
  4. 2026$220K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Agriculture14 reports
  2. Food industry (safety, labeling)14 reports
  3. Trade (domestic and foreign)12 reports
  4. Commodities (big ticket)9 reports
  5. Miscellaneous tariff bills7 reports
  6. Environment and Superfund3 reports
  7. Labor issues, antitrust and workplace3 reports
  8. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 reports
  3. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)13 reports
  4. State - Dept of (DOS)8 reports
  5. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD$0
    5 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Democratic$34K53%
  2. Republican$30.5K47%

PACs sponsored

  • THE HERSHEY COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$146.4K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.