Hershey Just Debuted This Brand New Chocolate Bar

The nation's most famous chocolate bar producer launched Hershey's Oat Made chocolate bars.

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Vegans and plant-based eaters rejoice! Enjoy your favorite chocolate bar without animal byproducts.

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One drawback? Not every large grocer will carry it immediately. Consider this a trial run.

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"To validate our concepts with Hershey's Oat Made products, we're doing real-time, in-market testing," Hershey's strategic growth

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We're working with partners to keep a limited number of stores supplied with a limited quantity of inventory

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enabling us to have Hershey's Oat Made products out on the shelf and analyze how they perform in the real world."

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The bars will be under trial until June 2022, giving you plenty of time to support the new product. Customers seem excited about the new candy bar.

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The launch of Hershey's Oat Made follows the brand's February "better for you" confection category, which includes plant-based options.

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"We started our work on the Hershey's Oat Made products by evaluating the current plant-based offerings on the candy market

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after discovering that existing product ingredient formulae could be improved, Hershey's excellent R&D team developed oat-based formula

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