It’s been almost two years since Hershey bought its former chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ont. The company has offered little information about its future plans as the economic environment changes for food manufacturing in Canada.
On his kitchen table, Brent Whiten lays out binders packed with photos and memorabilia from his time working at the nearby former Hershey chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ont.
Like so many residents of the town located about an hour’s drive southwest of Ottawa, Whiten is searching for clues about what Hershey will do with the factory it re-purchased from a cannabis company almost two years ago.
“I’m always driving by to see if they’ve got the Hershey sign on there yet…. To this day, it does not have the Hershey sign,” Whiten said.
“We don’t know if it’s staying or it’s going, but I hope it does stay because we could use that …