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Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act provides an affirmative defense that enables directors and officers to prearrange transactions in the Company’s securities in a manner that avoids concerns about initiating transactions while in possession of material nonpublic information.
−Removed: The following table describes the contracts, instructions or written plans for the purchase or sale of securities adopted by our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) during the three months ended September 28, 2025, that are intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).
+Added: The following table describes the contracts, instructions or written plans for the purchase or sale of securities adopted by our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) during the three months ended March 29, 2026, that are intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).
No other Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangements or “non-Rule 10b5–1 trading arrangements” (as defined by S-K Item 408(c)) were entered into or terminated by our directors or officers during such period.
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Aggregate Number of Securities to be Sold or Purchased
−Removed: Cordel Robbin-Coker
+Added: Deepak Bhatia
+Added: Chief Technology Officer
Sell 5,000 shares
+Added: Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
+Added: Sell 2,500 shares
+Added: Exercise & sell 2,013 stock options
+Added: Vero Villasenor
+Added: Chief Brand Officer
+Added: Sell 689 shares
(1) The plan duration is until the date listed in this column or such earlier date upon the completion of all trades under the plan (or the expiration of the orders relating to such trades without execution) or the occurrence of such other termination events as specified in the plan.
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Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended by the Company’s Stockholders on May 6, 2025, is incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 29, 2025.
−Removed: The Company's By-laws, as amended and restated as of March 4, 2025, are incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 10, 2025.
−Removed: Executive Employment Agreement, dated July 7, 2025, by and between The Hershey Company and Kirk Tanner, is incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 8, 2025.
−Removed: Form of Notice of Special Award of Performance Stock Units (effective July 7, 2025) .+
+Added: The Company's By-laws, as amended and restated as of December 5 , 2025, are incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 5, 2025.
Certification of Kirk Tanner, Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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101.DEF Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
−Removed: 104 The cover page from the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 28, 2025, formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101.
+Added: 104 The cover page from the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 29, 2026, formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101.
* Filed herewith
** Furnished herewith
−Removed: + Management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement
The Hershey Company | Q1 2026 Form 10-Q | Page 45
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THE HERSHEY COMPANY
−Removed: October 30, 2025 /s/ Steven E.
+Added: April 30, 2026 /s/ Steven E.
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
−Removed: October 30, 2025 /s/ Jennifer L.
+Added: April 30, 2026 /s/ Jennifer L.
Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.