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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-055617"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HSY"
cik: "0000047111"
company_name: "HERSHEY CO"
filed_at: "2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:24:08.181749+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hershey amends bylaws: removes Buck chairman reference, clarifies meeting chair roles

## Summary
- Removed language allowing Michele Buck to serve as Chairman of the Board to align with independent chair requirement.
- Eliminated all references to Lead Independent Director, consistent with prior bylaw changes requiring an independent chair.
- Added provisions for Governance Committee Chair to preside at meetings in absence of Chairman/Vice Chairman.
- Clarified that Vice Chairman may call Board meetings during CEO incapacity or emergency situations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-055617
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HSY
- cik: 0000047111
- company_name: HERSHEY CO
- filed_at: 2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47111/000162828025055617/0001628280-25-055617-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47111/000162828025055617/hsy-20251205.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 50580ccf98c493fa6c9923068671917ba45040cd
  claim: HERSHEY CO: Amended Bylaws to remove language allowing Michele Buck to hold Chairman of the Board position, remove references to Lead Independent Director, and add provisions regarding Governance Committee Chair presiding in absence of Chairman and Vice Chairman, and Vice Chairman authority to call Board meetin (effective 2025-12-05).
  evidence_excerpt: On December 5, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Hershey Company (the “Company”) amended the Company’s By-laws, as amended and restated as of March 4, 2025 (the “Bylaws”), to reflect the amendments discussed herein (the “Amendments”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47111/000162828025055617/0001628280-25-055617-index.htm

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