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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000047111-25-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HSY"
cik: "0000047111"
company_name: "HERSHEY CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T05:56:47.272994+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hershey shareholders elect all director nominees and approve all proposals at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with >619M votes each; Deirdre A. Mahlan and Kevin M. Ozan elected by Common Stock class.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditors for FY2025 approved (671,955,607 for, 1,028,265 against).
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation approved (625,026,511 for, 29,266,381 against).
- Amended and restated certificate of incorporation approved (653,973,464 for, 472,295 against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000047111-25-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HSY
- cik: 0000047111
- company_name: HERSHEY CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47111/000004711125000050/0000047111-25-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47111/000004711125000050/hsy-20250506.htm

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