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Last Wednesday, June 8, hundreds of students and concerned consumers gathered in front of the Hershey Store in Times Square, New York City, to call on Hershey to "raise the bar" by eliminating exploitative child labor from its cocoa production chain.

Bitter rivals on store shelves in the candy aisle may also duke it out in court.

In recent weeks, the United Kingdom candy manufacturer, Cadbury, has rejected offers of buyout from United States chocolate giant Hershey.

Hershey, after months of internal debate, is now considering a bid for the British candy maker Cadbury , a move that would challenge Kraft 's existing $16.7 billion hostile offer for the company, according to people briefed on the matter.

The trust that controls Hershey Co. has hired a notable banker and a small banking firm to advise on a possible bid for rival candy maker Cadbury PLC to compete with an offer from Kraft Foods Co., according to a published report.

People who like to order chocolate and gifts from Hershey's online service won't be able to after this month.

In what may be a first, a company has bought rights to a Facebook page -- in a bidding war, even. OraBrush, a company that makes tongue cleaners, has outbid Hershey's for the rights to the "Kisses" public profile, according to the Inside Facebook blog.

Pricing was not disclosed. The Kisses page has 1,158,002 fans, and every time the owner of the page posts something to it, it automatically appears on the status page of all its fans because it has "stream access." This means it's an easy way to advertise.

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