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Former Wendy's and PepsiCo executive Kirk Tanner became Hershey's President and CEO and joined its board, while Michele Buck stepped down. Maria Kraus, who also chairs the Hershey Trust, replaced Buck as chairman.

The former Horton Plaza mall, which Stockdale Capital Partners spent years converting into a 700,000-square-foot office campus, went to lender AllianceBernstein on a $130 million credit bid after a foreclosure auction drew no other bidders. Stockdale owed $384.3 million.

Hershey and Mondelez's two-way mash-up of America's No. 1 candy and No. 1 cookie opened for presale on The Hershey's Store, reaching stores nationwide in September; the cup became Reese's top innovation of 2025.

Salesforce signed a deal for Regrello, an AI-native tool that turns documents and business data into agentic workflows, to add agentic process automation to Agentforce and Slack.