The Kit Kat bar is an iconic snack food.
It perennially ranks among the top five candy bars sold in the United States, with sales approaching $300 million annually.
Large swathes of America can sing along to the company’s inimitable commercial jingle, launched in 1988: “Gimme a break! Gimme a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.”
Yet, despite its near-universal popularity, Kit-Kat has now come under the crosshairs of the meddling investors operating under the ESG umbrella—that’s “environmental, social, and governance” to you and me.
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James R. Copland is a senior fellow and director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of “The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite is Governing America.” Follow him on Twitter here.
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