The Hershey school trust voted to sell Hershey Foods to Wrigley for $12.5 billion in 2002, and a Pennsylvania court stopped it

In 1909 Milton and Catherine Hershey deeded 486 acres for a school for orphan boys. In 1918 Milton put most of his fortune, including his company stock, into its trust, about $60 million then. The Hershey Trust Company, whose board is also the school's board, is trustee. In 2002 the trust held $5.5 billion, about one-third of Hershey Foods' equity and three-fourths of its votes. On 25 July 2002 the trust announced it was exploring sale of its controlling interest to diversify. Alumni and townspeople objected; alumni president Ric Fouad called the trust "the charitable-trust Enron." Attorney General Mike Fisher asked the Dauphin County Orphans' Court to block a sale, and Senior Judge Warren G. Morgan issued an injunction. On 17 September 2002 the board voted to sell to Wrigley for $12.5 billion^†. On 18 September the Commonwealth Court affirmed the injunction, holding that a sale would be irreversible. The sale was dropped. In November 2002, 10 board members agreed to leave the trust. In August 2016 the trust's objections ended a Mondelez bid. The trust still controls Hershey in 2026^†.