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01/10/2025

-1.7 years

Food09/24/2026@ConsumerDesk

Hershey CEO Michele Buck Announces Retirement, Starting a CEO Search

Hershey…19 East Hershey Building, 19, East Chocolate Avenue, Spring Creek Manor, Hershey, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 17036, United States

Starts 01/10/2025 9:05PMCONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCEStated as firm: Hershey's release "Hershey Announces CEO Succession Plan", datelined HERSHEY, Pa., Jan. 10, 2025 and stamped "Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:05:00 -0500" (21:05 UTC), says the company "today announced" Buck "has informed the Board of her intention to retire".^[1]

Michele Buck, Hershey's chairman and CEO, a 20-year Hershey veteran who took the top job in 2017, told the board she would retire by June 30, 2026. A board committee began an external and internal search for her successor.

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04/16/2025

-1.4 years

三月十九 National Bean Counters' Day

Food09/24/2026@BuildDesk

Hershey Opens Its Reese Chocolate Processing Plant in Hershey, PA

Hershey…Reese Avenue, Hershey, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 17036, United States

Starts 04/16/2025DELAYED13 months late62% CONFIDENCEStated as firm in the Governor's release dated "April 16, 2025": "Today, Governor Josh Shapiro joined Michele Buck, President and CEO of The Hershey Company^[2] ... to open the new state-of-the-art Reese Chocolate Processing (RCP) facility"; Food Business News^[4] confirms the ribbon-cutting "on Hershey's campus on April 16".

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

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National Bluebird of Happiness Day

12/31/2026

98 days

十一月廿三 National Champagne Day

Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk

Hershey's AAA Automation and Job-Cut Programme Wraps Up

Hershey…19 East Hershey Building, 19, East Chocolate Avenue, Spring Creek Manor, Hershey, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 17036, United States

Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 59% CONFIDENCEEstimated from the year: Hershey's Q2 2026 10-Q says the AAA Initiative's costs run "from inception through 2026" and "At the conclusion of the program in 2026, ongoing annual savings are expected to be approximately $400,000" (thousands); a bare year is taken as its last day.^[1]

Hershey's Advancing Agility & Automation Initiative, which cut jobs and automated processes from 2024, is due to finish at the end of 2026 at a cost of $200-250 million. It is expected to leave about $400 million of annual savings.

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Hershey CEO Michele Buck Announces Retirement, Starting a CEO Search

Hershey Opens Its Reese Chocolate Processing Plant in Hershey, PA

Hershey's AAA Automation and Job-Cut Programme Wraps Up