Complete one paragraph, profiling each company's business, including information such as a brief history, where they are located, number of employees, the products they sell, and so forth. Please reference any websites that you used for the Profiles on the Bibliography tab.

Tootsie Roll Industries began in a small candy store in New York in 1896. Tootsie Roll is now headquartered in Chicago and primarily sells their products in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. According to Yahoo Finance, Tootsie Roll has 2,000 full-time employees. Tootsie Roll sells the following branded candy: Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Pop, Charms Blow Pop, Mason Dots, Andes, Sugar Daddy, Charleston Chew, Double Bubble, Razzles, Caramel Apple Pop, and Junior Mints. Tootsie Roll had 2014 net product sales of $539.9 million.

Hershey Company was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1893 and is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania. According to Yahoo Finance, Hershey has 20,800 full-time employees. Hershey is famous for Good & Plenty, Hershey Bar, Hershey's Kisses, Hershey's Bliss, Reese's, Rolo, Twizzlers, Almond Joy, Kit Kat, and Ice Breakers. Hershey had net product sales of $7.4 billion for 2014.

The 2014 financial statements used to calculate these ratios are available in the Investor Relations section of the Tootsie Roll and Hershey websites.
Earnings per Share of Common Stock (basic - common)	As given in the income statement
Current Ratio	Current assets
	Current liabilities
Gross (Profit) Margin Percentage	Gross margin
	Net sales
Rate of Return (Net Profit Margin) on Sales	Net income
	Net sales
Inventory Turnover	Cost of goods sold
	Average inventory
Days' inventory outstanding (DIO)	365
	Inventory turnover
Accounts Receivable Turnover	Net sales (assume all sales are credit sales)
	Average net accounts receivable
Days' Sales Outstanding (DSO)	365
	Accounts receivable turnover
Asset turnover	Net sales
	Average total assets
Rate of Return on Total Assets (ROA)	Rate of return on sales times asset turnover
Debt Ratio	Total Liabilities
	Total Assets
Times-Interest-Earned Ratio	Income from operations
	Interest expense
Dividend Yield	Dividend per share of common stock (Yahoo Finance 12/24/2015)
(Please follow the Course Project instructions to calculate the current dividend yield.)	Market price per share of common stock (Yahoo Finance 12/24/2015)
Rate of Return on Common Stockholders' Equity (ROE)	Net income - Preferred dividends
	Average common stockholders' equity
Free cash flow	Net cash provided by operating activities minus cash payments earmarked for investments in plant assets
Price-Earnings Ratio (Multiple)	Market price per share of common stock as of 12/31/2014
(Please see the Course Project instructions for the dates to use for this ratio.)	Earnings per share