Hershey agreed to a roughly $750 million deal for the popcorn brand LesserEvil, according to people familiar with the matter. An agreement was announced by the company Thursday, confirming an earlier ...

People online are calling for a boycott of Lesser Evil, a healthy snack brand based in Connecticut, over its ties to the 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team who went by the online handle ...

(WHTM) — The Hershey Company announces it has closed the acquisition of the popcorn company LesserEvil on Wednesday. Hershey says the acquisition will expand the brand’s variety of snacks it offers.

US organic popcorn maker LesserEvil has sold a “significant minority” interest to private-equity firm Aria Growth Partners as part of a funding round. The size of the stake sold to the New York-based ...

DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LesserEvil LLC., makers of organic popcorn and salty snacks, announced today that it received a significant minority growth investment from Aria Growth Partners, a ...

Update 12pm: Adds Hershey confirmation. Hershey Co. (NYSE:HSY) said it entered into an agreement to acquire the LesserEvil organic popcorn and snacks brand. The chocolate maker said the deal is ...

LesserEvil popcorn: Credit: ZikG/Shutterstock. Candy giant Hershey has signed a deal to buy LesserEvil, a US-based organic snack manufacturer. Connecticut-based LesserEvil markets a range ...

Popcorn is deeply rooted in the Americas. Indigenous people in present-day Central and South America were among the first to cultivate and consume popcorn. Archaeological evidence suggests that corn ...

Snacks can be a guilty pleasure. But in this week's Made in Connecticut, News 12 visited a company in Danbury where snacks are a LesserEvil. LesserEvil’s popcorn is placed into biodegradable bags and ...

An agreement was announced by the company Thursday, confirming an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal. Hershey didn’t disclose the price it agreed to pay.