CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEStated as firm: the release is datelined "HERSHEY, Pa., Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/" and stamped 06:45 ET (11:45 UTC) on Hershey's newsroom feed; the 8-K was accepted at 11:46 UTC.[1]
Hershey ended a cocoa- and tariff-hit 2025 with full-year net income down 60% to $883 million on sales up 4.4% to $11.7 billion, then guided 2026 to 4-5% sales growth and a 30-35% rebound in adjusted earnings per share.
19 East Hershey Building, 19, East Chocolate Avenue, Spring Creek Manor, Hershey, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 17036, United StatesHershey
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCEStated as firm: the release is datelined "HERSHEY, Pa., Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/" and stamped 07:00 ET (12:00 UTC); "The dividends were declared February 4, 2026".[1]
Hershey lifted its quarterly dividend to $1.452 a share from $1.370, its first increase after holding the payout flat through the cocoa and tariff squeeze of 2025, alongside a forecast of a 30-35% earnings rebound in 2026.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEStated as firm by Gothamist[1] (published 5 Feb 2026): "One of America's largest construction projects began closing up shop on Thursday due to President Donald Trump's order to withhold funding".
The Gateway Development Commission began shutting down its five job sites on the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel after the Trump administration kept withholding federal grants; a federal judge ordered the money released the next evening.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCENike's[1] 27 Jan 2026 release: 'The collection will be available February 5 at nike.com/NikeSKIMS ... across North America, Europe and the Middle East'.
NikeSKIMS' Spring '26 line, fronted by Blackpink's LISA and adding its first head-to-toe look with the Rift Satin shoe, went on sale across North America, Europe and the Middle East, the brand's first move beyond North America.
5600, Avenida Encinas, Farr, Carlsbad Ranch, Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, 92008, United StatesVuori
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEWWD[1] published the campaign exclusive on 5 February 2026 ("British tennis player Jack Draper is the campaign star for Vuori's new Hardkore Short"); Sports Illustrated covered it the same day.
Jack Draper starred in Vuori's campaign for the HardKore Short, its most performance-focused take on the Kore Short, in ultralight ripstop at $98.
1095 6th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York, NY 10036, United StatesVerizon
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCESchulman's memo "Executive Leadership Transition" was published Feb 05, 2026 at 16:00 UTC; the 8-K says Sampath ceased to serve on February 4, 2026.[1]
Sowmyanarayan Sampath stepped down as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, with Chief Transformation Officer Alfonso Villanueva, a former PayPal colleague of Dan Schulman's, taking over on an interim basis.
Ferrero International S.A., 16 Route de Trèves, Senningerberg, Niederanven, 2633, LuxembourgFerrero
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEFerrero's[1][3] page is timed "Fri, 02/06/2026 09:30" (CET); the PR Newswire[2] copy is stamped "Feb 06, 2026, 03:33 ET".
Ferrero's turnover rose 4.6% to EUR 19.3 billion in the year to 31 August 2025, with capital investment of close to EUR 1.1 billion and the WK Kellogg Co cereal deal closing just after year-end.
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Piazzale Angelo Moratti, Quartiere Harar, San Siro, Municipio 7, Milano, Lombardia, 20151, ItaliaLululemon
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCETeam Canada's report dates the ceremony 'Friday, February 06, 2026'; Wikipedia[2] gives 'It started at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) and concluded at 23:29'.
About 135 Canadian athletes paraded in Lululemon's burgundy-and-red maple-leaf kit at the first Olympic opening ceremony held across four sites, with flag bearers Mikaël Kingsbury and Marielle Thompson leading in Livigno.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCENo premiere date exists yet, so this pins the announcement, which Anime News Network[2] and Wikipedia[3] date to the February 7, 2026 Aedes Vesta event.
The DanMachi franchise confirmed a sixth anime season of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? at its "Aedes Vesta" 10th anniversary event, following the Goddess of the Harvest arc of season 5.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the TTC "began an introductory service period on Line 5 starting Sunday, Feb. 8," marking the line's opening as Line 5 Eglinton.
Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.
Levi's Stadium, 4900 Marie P. DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United StatesVerizon
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEVerizon's[1][3] recap reports usage 'on Super Bowl Sunday' at Levi's Stadium; Wikipedia's[2] Super Bowl LX article dates the game February 8, 2026.
Verizon customers used 40.32 TB of data in and around Levi's Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, 6% more than a year earlier and over five times the 7 TB of Super Bowl 50 at the same stadium, after nearly 200 network projects across the Bay Area.
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEBusiness Insider's[1] report with Salesforce's statement was published at 01:30Z on 10 February 2026 (5:30 pm PST on 9 February) and says Adam Evans "announced his departure on Sunday" and Ariel Kelman "left on Monday".
Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe 10 Feb 2026 release says the assortment 'launches this morning in North America'; Business Wire stamped it 7:30 AM CST.[1]
A new training platform built on PowerLu, Lululemon's highest filament-count fabric, for heavy lifts and deep squats, wear-tested by Lewis Hamilton and Kayla Jeter and launched in North America.
Riyadh, Riyadh governorate, Riyadh Region, 12643, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEStated as firm by the signing photo Arab News[3] carries, whose backdrop reads "MoU Signing Ceremony between Aramco and Microsoft, February 10, 2026, Riyadh"; aramco.com[1] announced it two days later ("DHAHRAN|FEBRUARY 12, 2026").
A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.
United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United StatesAlo Yoga
CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCETCPAWorld's[1] post of 13 February 2026 says "just yesterday, Alo Yoga was hit with ANOTHER TCPA class action", Case No. 2:26-CV-01484.
A shopper sued Alo in Los Angeles federal court in a proposed class action claiming it sent marketing texts to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, months after a first texting suit was dropped.
7 Sylvan Way, Littleton, Parsippany-Troy Hills, Morris County, New Jersey 07054, United StatesFerrero
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEFerrero[1], PARSIPPANY, N.J., February 12, 2026, 9:00 AM: Tic Tac "announces the launch of Tic Tac Dr Pepper Mints", "now available at select retailers".
Tic Tac packs Dr Pepper's 23-flavour blend into its pocket mint, a limited-time US collaboration arriving at select retailers before a nationwide roll-out.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEFirm, already-passed release date per Deadline[3]/Wikipedia coverage of the film's theatrical bow.
Emerald Fennell directs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel about the destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe article states "Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2, along with Seva Teerth were inaugurated on 13 February 2026."[1]
Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.
Bandai Namco Pictures revisits the Yoshiwara Arc for the big screen as part of Gintama's 20th-anniversary project, following Gintoki and friends into the pleasure district to help a young pickpocket find his long-lost mother.
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia 20580, United StatesMicrosoft
ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCEEstimated, per Bloomberg's exclusive of 13 February 2026 (3:15 PM UTC): the FTC "has issued civil investigative demands in recent weeks" - no day is given, so the pin sits on the day the escalation was first reported.[1]
The FTC sent civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft rivals, asking whether its licensing hobbles Windows and Office on other clouds and how it bundles AI, security and identity software.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEDHS was without routine funding from 14 February 2026 until the President signed the funding bill on 30 April 2026, a record 76 days.[1]
A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.