Want to know what it feels like to don a 16.5-carat diamond necklace? Hersheyâs Bliss is giving women the chance to find out! The Hershey Company will take a page from the New York Times best-selling book âThe Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Livesâ by Cheryl Jarvis (A Ballantine Trade Paperback) in which 13 women embark on a surprising journey of living life and learning about one another as they join forces to purchase and share a diamond necklace. The Hersheyâs Bliss chocolate Share the Bliss⢠contest will connect women nationwide with the once-in-a-lifetime chance to share a 16.5-carat diamond necklace. The national online essay contest kicked off recently at www.hersheysbliss.com and celebrates the launch of the new Hersheyâs Bliss Dark Chocolate bars and Hersheyâs Bliss Milk Chocolate with a Meltaway Center bars.
Consumers are invited to share stories (150 words or less) of why they, or a loved one, would like to be âblissedâ by the Hersheyâs Bliss diamond necklace. Visit www.hersheysbliss.com and share a story about yourself, your mother, wife, sister, daughter or friend. Five lucky women will be selected to share the 16.5-carat diamond necklace for two weeks and will receive the necklace, delicious Hersheyâs Bliss chocolate and a signed copy of âThe Necklace.â Each winner will be asked to share their experience with the necklace through a blog on the Hersheyâs Bliss chocolate Web site and to help select the next winner, thus connecting women nationwide. The winners will be invited to meet in person for the first time at the Young Survival Coalitionâs (YSC) spring 2010 charity benefit in New York City where the necklace will be âblissedâ for the last time. Hersheyâs Bliss will continue the companyâs long-standing support of the YSC and raising awareness for breast cancer by donating the 16.5-carat diamond necklace to the organizationâs annual fund raiser.
For more information on Hersheyâs Bliss chocolate and to enter for a chance to be one of five lucky women who will be âblissedâ with the one-of-a-kind diamond necklace visit www.hersheysbliss.com.