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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: commitment
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“I just want to let you know that we are going to start phasing out our chocolate purchases from you all.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…We should say, too, at this point, he has completely overhauled the Chicago factory. They’re all in on mass productions. These count lines are moving as they used to make a Snickers bar in a day, and now they can do it in under an hour. He’s just going. He’s going. His first act of business once he becomes CEO of Mars America, as he calls Hershey up, he’s like, hello. Remember me? I’m the new CEO of Mars. I just want to let you know that we are going to start phasing out our chocolate purchases from you all. The way Hershey reacts to this is, what? You would be stupid to do that. Imagine how long it would take you to pay back the investment necessary to spin up your own chocolate factory. You would have to be nuts to take on all that fixed cost.…
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