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2025 Consolidated Index (GRI, UNGPRF) Report

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‌2025 Consolidated Index (GRI, UNGPRF)

The data in this report represents January to December 2025, unless otherwise stated. For a detailed explanation of the indicators, visit the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) website: globalreporting.org. This content report accompanies our 2025 Responsible Business Report, it has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Universal Standards and follows the reporting principles from GRI: Foundation 2021.

‌GRI Standard Reference GRI Disclosure 2025 Hershey Response UNGPRF

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

The organization and its reporting practices

2-1

Organizational details

Legal name:

  • The Hershey Company

    Nature of ownership and legal form:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 2-3

    Location of the headquarters:

  • 19 East Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033

    Countries of operation:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 2-7, Exhibit 21.1

2-2

Entities included in the organization's sustainability reporting

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 2-5

2-3

Reporting period, frequency and contact point

This report covers the 2025 calendar year, which is also our fiscal year, unless otherwise stated. We report on our sustainability progress annually.

For queries regarding the report, contact sustainability@hersheys.com.

2-4

Restatements of information

Throughout Hershey's 2025 Responsible Business Report, restatements due to scope and/or methodology changes have been noted with footnotes where applicable. These changes are driven by Hershey's merger and acquisition activities, as well as the increased rigor of our non-financial disclosures. Additionally, some data has been restated from past years as we expand our data-collection abilities to be more inclusive of the global scope of the company.

2-5

External assurance

Select environmental data within Hershey's 2025 Responsible Business Report has been verified by Quantis, an independent verifier. Additional environmental and human capital data has received limited assurance by Ernst & Young (EY).

  • EY Limited Assurance

  • Quantis Verification Letter

Activities and workers

2-6

Activities, value chain and other business relationships

We are not aware of any of the products we manufacture being banned in the countries in which they are lawfully distributed.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Our Priority Ingredients and Materials, page 14

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 2-5; 10

  • Partnerships

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

2-7

Employees

We do not have a significant portion of activities performed by workers who are not employees.

Global employee totals have not significantly fluctuated between reporting periods. Hershey Business Processes (HBP) team maintains and manages employee data and HR Analytics calculates these metrics.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People (data), pages 68-73

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 6-7

  • Human Rights Policy

  • Responsible Recruiting & Employment Policy

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

2-8

Workers who are not employees

Requirement omitted: Entire disclosure

Reason for Omission: Topic not material for Hershey

Explanation of Omission: We do not have a significant portion of activities performed by workers who are not employees.

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

Governance

2-9

Governance structure and composition

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance, pages 13-25

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Director Nominations, pages 25-26

  • Board of Directors

  • Committees & Charters

  • Corporate Governance

2-10

Nomination and selection of the highest governance body

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance-Board Composition, Criteria for Board Membership and Board Evaluations, pages 14-18

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Governance Committee Charter

2-11

Chair of the highest governance body

Kirk Tanner is President and Chief Executive Officer for The Hershey Company and Maria T. Kraus, an independent director, serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

See also:

  • Our Leadership

2-12

Role of the highest governance body in overseeing the management of impacts

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2025 TCFD Report

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: The Hershey Company Purpose and Values, pages 9-12

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance-Enterprise Risk Management, pages 22-24

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance - Communications with Directors, page 26

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Double Materiality Assessment

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

A1, A1.1, A1.3, A2, A2.1, A2.2, A2.4, B2, B3, C4.1

2-13

Delegation of responsibility for managing impacts

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: The Hershey Company Purpose and Values - Hershey's Global Sustainability Strategy - Board Oversight of Sustainability, pages 9-10

  • Corporate Governance

  • Human Rights Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

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Role of the highest governance body in sustainability reporting

Kirk Tanner and Hershey's Board of Directors review Hershey's Responsible Business Report and the material topics covered therein.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: The Hershey Company Purpose and Values, page 9

2-15

Conflicts of interest

  • Code of Conduct

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Related Person Transaction Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

A1, A1.2, A2.3, C6

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

Governance

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Communication of critical concerns

In 2025, Hershey recorded zero cases deemed "critical" and ten that were deemed "high severity."

Any "critical" concerns are reported to the Ethical Business Practices Committee (EBPC) and the Audit Committee pursuant to our policies and procedures.

Compliance concerns are reported through various channels, including but not limited to: Hershey's Concern Line, business partners, Human Resources (HR), Ethics & Compliance. All concerns are managed and followed closely by the Ethics & Compliance department. Hershey applies severity codes to cases depending on certain parameters such as violation, potential fines and/or involvement of senior leaders. Critical concerns (red) and significant concerns (orange) are reported to the EBPC and Audit Committee for visibility. Issues reported to the Concern Line cover a wide array of topics, including conflicts of interest, general labor practices, employment-related concerns, potential fraud, security and requests for general advice.

See also:

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance -Communications with Directors, page 26

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

C6.1, C6.2, C6.3

2-17

Collective knowledge of the highest governance body

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

2-18

Evaluation of the performance of the highest governance body

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

2-19

Remuneration policies

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 104

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Compensation Discussion and Analysis, pages 45-64

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Living Wage & Income Position Statement

2-20

Process to determine remuneration

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Compensation Discussion and Analysis-Setting Compensation, page 54

2-21

Annual total compensation ratio

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Compensation Discussion and Analysis, pages 45-64

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure, page 82

Requirement omitted: 2-21-b.

Reason for Omission: Information unavailable

Explanation of Omission: the percentage increase in annual total compensation for the organization's highest-paid individual to the median percentage increase in annual total compensation for all employees is not currently tracked.

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

Strategy, policies and practices

2-22

Statement on sustainable development strategy

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future: A Message From Our CEO, page 4

  • Making Good for Our Future: A Message From Our Head of Sustainability, page 5

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Environmental Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

A1

2-23

Policy commitments

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: The Hershey Company Purpose and Values, page 9

  • 2026 Proxy Statement: Corporate Governance - Enterprise Risk Management, page 22

  • Code of Conduct

  • Reports, Policies, and Resources

C4.3

2-24

Embedding policy commitments

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Responsible Sourcing Supplier and Recruitment Programs, page 48

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Responsible Recruitment Program (data), page 56

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program (data), page 57

    See also:

  • Reports, Policies, and Resources

A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A2, A2.2, A2.3,

A2.4, A2.5, B1, B2, B3, C1.1, C2.2, C3.2, C6, C6.3, C6.5

2-25

Processes to remediate negative impacts

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

    See also:

  • Partnerships

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

2-26

Mechanisms for seeking advice and raising concerns

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Corporate Governance

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Palm Oil Grievance Procedure

  • Procedures For Submission And Handling Of Complaints Regarding Compliance Matters

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

2-27

Compliance with laws and regulations

During calendar year 2025, The Hershey Company did not have material fines or non-monetary sanctions for noncompliance with laws and/or regulations in the environmental, social, and economic area.

2-28

Membership associations

Hershey engages with many different initiatives/organizations where we are also members.

  • Living Wage and Income Position Statement

  • Partnerships

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

C2.2

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

Stakeholder engagement

2-29

Approach to stakeholder engagement

Our key stakeholder groups include:

  • Communities where we operate

  • Consumers

  • Employees

  • Farmers

  • Government and policymakers

  • Investors

  • Non-governmental organizations

  • Retailers

  • Suppliers and other business partners

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy, pages 45-49

See also:

  • Double Materiality Assessment

  • 2026 Proxy Statement

  • Partnerships

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

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Collective bargaining agreements

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: 2025 Non-Compliance Issues By Category (data), page 59

  • Our People (data), page 68

See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 6

MATERIAL TOPICS

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-1

Process to determine material topics

Double Materiality Assessment

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List of material topics

  • Double Materiality Assessment

  • Sustainability Issues

B1, B2

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 24

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

GRI 201: Economic

Performance 2016

201-1

Direct economic value generated and distributed

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our Company Data: Financial Performance (data), page 53

See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 25-35

201-2

Financial implications and other risks and opportunities due to climate change

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Make: Efficient Operations, pages 28-37

    See also:

  • 2025 TCFD Report

  • Environmental Policy

201-3

Defined benefit plan obligations and other retirement plans

  1. Estimated value of U.S. qualified plan liabilities as of December 31, 2025: $664 million.

  2. The Hershey Company has a Master Retirement Plan Trust that holds the investment funds for our Pension Plan.

    1. As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. qualified plans had a 109% funded status.

    2. This is based on actuarial valuation reports used to support Hershey's 2025 Form 10-K filing for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

  3. Hershey's pension plan is funded entirely via employer contributions. Employee contributions are not required.

  4. Hershey's pension plan is closed to new hires, but eligible participants continue to accrue benefits.

See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 40-41

  • Hershey Careers: Benefits

201-4

Financial assistance received from government

The Hershey Company is a publicly traded company on the NYSE, and as such, may have governmental entities (e.g. pension funds, state-owned banks) as investors/ shareholders in the ordinary course of business. The Hershey Company also invests in partnerships that make equity investments in projects eligible to receive federal historic and renewable energy tax credits.

See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 75-81

MARKET PRESENCE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 2-7; 20-109

  • Corporate Governance Guidelines

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

A1, A1.2, A1.3, A2, A2.1, A2.2, A2.3

GRI 204: Procurement Practices 2016

202-1

Ratios of standard entry level wage by gender compared to local minimum wage

Requirement omitted: Entire disclosure Reason for Omission: Information unavailable

Explanation of Omission: Hershey does not currently monitor or report on employee wages relative to local minimum wage, and there is no established timeline to do so.

202-2

Proportion of senior management hired from the local community

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People: U.S. Workforce by Hershey Internal Job Category (data), page 69

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K: Principal Properties, page 18

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

INDIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACTS

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients, pages 12-27

  • Make: Efficient Operations, pages 28-37

A1.2, A1.3, A2.4, B3, B4, C6.3

GRI 203: Indirect Economic Impacts 2016

203-1

Infrastructure investments and services supported

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future: Retrospective and Lessons Learned, pages 6-8

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

A1, A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, C2.2

203-2

Significant indirect economic impacts

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future: Retrospective and Lessons Learned, pages 6-8

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

PROCUREMENT PRACTICES

MATERIAL TOPIC: RESPONSIBLE SOURCING

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

A1, A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A2, A2.1, A2.2,

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

A2.3, A2.4, A2.5, B1, B2, B3, C1,

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Our Priority Ingredients and Materials, page 14

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

C2, C2.2, C2.3, C3, C3.1, C3.2, C4,

C4.1, C4.3, C5, C5.1, C6, C6.5

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy, pages 45-49

See also:

  • Building What Comes Next: Strengthening How We Source, Make and Delight

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Progress on Priorities: Responsible Sourcing

  • Reports, Policies, and Resources

ANTI-CORRUPTION

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Audit Committee Charter

  • Code of Conduct

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Our Chief Risk Officer and Chief Compliance Officer are responsible for overseeing our management approach.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Procedures For Submission And Handling Of Complaints Regarding Compliance Matters

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

GRI 206: Anti-Competitive Behavior 2016

206-1

Legal actions for anti- competitive behavior, antitrust, and monopoly practices

No instances of material noncompliance with regulations concerning antitrust occurred in 2025.

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

MATERIALS

MATERIAL TOPIC: PACKAGING AND END-OF-LIFE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Deforestation and Conversion-Free Supply Chains, page 18

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Waste Reduction, page 30

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Optimizing Packaging, page 33

  • Delight: Relevant Portfolio: Responsible Packaging, pages 42-43

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

GRI 301: Materials 2016

301-1

Materials used by weight or volume

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: Packaging (data), page 64

301-2

Recycled input materials used

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future: Progress On Our Priority Goals, page 11

  • Environment: Packaging (data), page 64

Requirement omitted: Entire disclosure outside of North America. Reason for Omission: Information unavailable

Explanation of Omission: Recycled input materials are not currently tracked outside of North America. There are no current plans to include this data in our reporting.

301-3

Reclaimed products and their packaging material

Hershey does not currently reclaim products or packaging.

ENERGY

MATERIAL TOPIC: ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

    See also:

  • Double Materiality Assessment

  • Code of Conduct

  • Environmental Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • 2025 TCFD Report

GRI 302: Energy 2016

302-1

Energy consumption within the organization

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy Efficiency, page 32

  • Environment: Energy Consumption and Electricity Mix (data), page 63

302-2

Energy consumption outside of the organization

While energy conservation is part of Hershey's climate action strategy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are the most meaningful indicator for Hershey, and is the metric used. The CO2 equivalent of energy consumption outside of the organization is calculated and accounted for in our GHG footprint as part of our Scope 3 (value chain) emissions data.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: GHG Emissions - Scope 3 (data), page 62

302-3

Energy intensity

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: Energy Consumption (data), page 63

302-4

Reduction of energy consumption

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy Efficiency, page 32

  • Environment: Energy Consumption and Electricity Mix (data), page 63

302-5

Reductions in energy requirements of products and services

Requirement omitted: entire disclosure. Reason for Omission: disclosure not applicable.

Explanation of Omission: This disclosure is not applicable to Hershey as we do not sell any products or services involving energy requirements.

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

WATER AND EFFLUENTS MATERIAL TOPIC: WATER USE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Water, page 35

  • Environment: Water Impact (data), page 65

    See also:

  • Environmental Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

GRI 303: Water and Effluents 2018

303-1

Interactions with water as a shared resource

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Water, page 35

  • Environment: Water Impact (data), page 65

303-2

Management of water discharge-related impacts

We comply with the water quality standards for the quality of effluent discharge established by law for each location in which Hershey operates. The profile of the receiving water body is considered to the extent required by local laws.

303-3

Water withdrawal

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Water, page 35

  • Environment: Water Impact (data), page 65

303-4

Water discharge

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Water, page 35

  • Environment: Water Impact (data), page 65

303-5

Water consumption

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Water, page 35

  • Environment: Water Impact (data), page 65

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

BIODIVERSITY

MATERIAL TOPICS: BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

    See also:

  • Cocoa & Forests Initiative

  • Environmental Policy

  • Deforestation and Conversion-Free Implementation Approach

  • Deforestation and Conversion-Free Policy

  • Grievance Procedure for Hershey's Deforestation and Conversion-Free Policy

  • Responsible Palm Oil Sourcing Policy

  • Responsible Pulp and Paper Sourcing Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016

304-1

Operational sites owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Environment: Biodiversity (data), page 66

Requirement omitted: Size of operational site. Reason for Omission: Confidential information.

Explanation of Omission: We consider the requests relating to size of company properties to be confidential.

304-2

Significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Reducing Our Scope 3 FLAG Emissions, pages 19-20

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Responsibly Sourced Priority Ingredients and Materials, pages 25-26

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

304-3

Habitats protected or restored

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

    See also:

  • Deforestation and Conversion-Free Implementation Approach

  • Deforestation and Conversion-Free Policy

304-4

IUCN Red List species and 2016 national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: IUCN Red List Species (data), page 67

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

EMISSIONS

MATERIAL TOPICS: GHG EMISSIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Accountability for sustainability at the management level resides with our Head of Sustainability, who reports to our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Environmental Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • 2025 TCFD Report

GRI 305: Emissions 2016

305-1

Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

  • Environment: GHG Emissions (data), page 61

305-2

Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

  • Environment: GHG Emissions (data), page 61

305-3

Other indirect (Scope 3) GHG emissions

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Reducing Our Scope 3 FLAG Emissions, pages 19-20

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Reducing Our Scope 3 Non-FLAG Emissions, pages 33-34

  • Environment: GHG Emissions (data), pages 61-62

305-4

GHG emissions intensity

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

  • Environment: GHG Emissions (data), page 62

305-5

Reduction of GHG emissions

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future: Progress on Our Priorities, page 11

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Energy and Climate, pages 31-32

  • Environment: GHG Emissions (data), page 61

305-6

Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS)

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: Air Quality (data), page 64

305-7

Nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), and other significant air emissions

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Environment: Air Quality (data), page 64

EFFLUENTS AND WASTE

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Make: Efficient Operations, pages 28-37

    See also:

  • Environmental Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

C4.3, C5.1

GRI 306: Waste 2020

306-1

Waste generation and significant waste-related impacts

No impact generated by any significant actual or potential waste-related impacts. Our sites manage the waste generated according to local regulations.

306-2

Management of significant waste-related impacts

Our sites manage the waste generated according to local regulations.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Waste Reduction, page 30

306-3

Waste generated

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Waste Reduction, page 30

  • Environment: Waste Management (data), page 64

306-4

Waste diverted from disposal

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Waste Reduction, page 30

  • Environment: Waste Management (data), page 64

306-5

Waste directed to disposal

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Make: Efficient Operations: Waste Reduction, page 30

  • Environment: Waste Management (data), page 64

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

SUPPLIER ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT

MATERIAL TOPICS: RESPONSIBLE SOURCING; DEFORESTATION

Disclosures on Material Topics 2021

3-3

Management of Material Topics

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Responsibly Sourced Priority Ingredients and Materials, pages 25-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Investing in Data and Technology, page 50

    See also:

  • Environmental Policy

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Responsible Palm Oil Sourcing Policy

  • Responsible Pulp & Paper Sourcing Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

A1, A1.2, A1.3, A2.4, B3, C1, C2.2

GRI 308: Supplier Environmental Assessment 2016

308-1

New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria

Hershey uses standard contract language in its template agreements that requires suppliers to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct, which outlines our expectations with respect to environmental issues.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Responsibly Sourced Priority Ingredients and Materials, pages 25-26

    See also:

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

308-2

Negative environmental impacts in the supply chain and actions taken

We continue to enroll high-risk and high-priority suppliers into our Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program. Additionally, we engage with direct and upstream suppliers through our priority ingredients and material strategies. Assessing environmental impact is part of these programs' due diligence.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farms, pages 15-18

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Responsibly Sourced Priority Ingredients and Materials, pages 25-26

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program (data), page 57

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

EMPLOYMENT

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We have HR policies for each region in which we operate, which may vary based on local laws and regulations.

Our HR Leadership team is responsible for reviewing all HR-related policies and our management approach regularly to ensure they provide an appropriate framework for the company and its employees on standards of behavior and other requirements consistent with Hershey's practices and local requirements.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Living Wage, page 49

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Living Wage and Income Position Statement

  • Responsible Recruiting & Employment Policy

A2.5

GRI 401: Employment 2016

401-1

New employee hires and employee turnover

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People: New Employees Hired (data), page 72

  • Our People: Employee Turnover (data), page 73

401-2

Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees

The benefits Hershey provides vary depending on location and are based, in part, on local requirements with which we comply. See 202-2 for our definition of significant locations of operation.

See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 81

  • Hershey Careers: Benefits

401-3

Parental leave

We adhere to all relevant laws and regulations for maternity and paternity leave globally. Outside of the U.S. individual instances of parental leave are monitored; however, they are not aggregated. There are no current plans to aggregate this data.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People: Parental Leave (data), page 71

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

LABOR/MANAGEMENT RELATIONS

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In our unionized environments, specific grievance procedures are documented in each of the respective collective bargaining agreements. In our non-unionized environments, similar dispute-resolution mechanisms are in place for employees. Specifically, in the United States, this includes a formal peer-review program where manufacturing employees can appeal certain employment decisions to the Plant Manager or to a panel of their peers.

Our HR department and Legal department are responsible for evaluating the handling of labor/management relations.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 104

  • Code of Conduct

  • Corporate Governance

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

402: Labor/ Management Relations 2016

402-1

Minimum notice periods regarding operational changes

We provide notification periods for significant changes. The exact length of time varies by the significance of the change. In unionized environments, we would meet and review with the labor representatives ahead of time.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • Progress on Priorities: Workplace Safety

A1.1, A1.3, A2.2, B4, C2.2, C3.1, C3.2, C4, C4.3, C5.1

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

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Our Chief Human Resources Officer has strategic oversight over Hershey's HR policies and talent management.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Progress on Priorities: Our People

GRI 404: Training and Education 2016

404-1

Average hours of training per year per employee

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People: Average hours of training per year per employee (data), page 72

C4.3, C5.1

404-2

Programs for upgrading employee skills and transition assistance programs

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People: Talent Development (data), page 71

    See also:

  • Progress on Priorities: Our People

  • Hershey Careers: Benefits

404-3

Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews

Salaried employees receive regular performance and career-development reviews.

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

DIVERSITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MATERIAL TOPIC: TOGETHERNESS

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We believe our business is stronger when we practice our Company value of Togetherness. Our people-focused programs help advance innovation, business growth and B4, C1, C2.3, C4.3

create a strong company culture that is fair, which enables us to delight consumers with beloved snacking brands. Further, our eight employee-led Business Resource

Groups, which include Abilities First, Black Heritage, Asian and Pacific Islander, GenH (Generations), Latino, Prism (LGBTQ), Veterans and Women's, are open to all and play a critical role in providing mentoring and career development opportunities for all, delivering commercial business insights, and connecting people to the Company and the communities where we do business.

In 2025, the Company was recognized among the World's Most Ethical Companies as rated by Ethisphere and achieved global Great Place to Work certifications.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Board of Directors

  • Corporate Governance

  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

  • Progress on Priorities: Our People

  • Reports, Policies and Resources

  • Sustainability Issues: Supplier Development

GRI 405: Diversity and Equal Opportunity 2016

405-1

Diversity of governance bodies and employee

Our gender representation includes women occupying many of the top positions in the Company, including Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer and Chief Brand Officer, and nearly 50% representation across the Company. Additionally, four of our 11 Board members are women (36% representation).

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Our People (data), pages 68-73

405-2

Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men

In 2025, we maintained fair and equitable pay achievements, including aggregate salary U.S. gender pay equity and aggregate U.S. salary people of color pay equity.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our People (data), pages 68-73

    See also:

  • Living Wage and Income Position Statement

NON-DISCRIMINATION

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We expect all managers to maintain a safe, respectful and inclusive climate in accordance with our company values and behaviors. Managers are expected to promptly report any concerns or allegations of discrimination or harassment. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action. All corporate employees are required to take our Discrimination and Harassment and Code of Conduct training every year. All corporate new hires complete this training during on-boarding. Our manufacturing employees are required to take the Code of Conduct training every other year, while certifying annually that they have read the Code of Conduct and that they understand and agree to abide by its requirements. Both trainings provide in-depth information around education and awareness of, and responsiveness to, discriminatory situations.

We expect all employees who feel they may have experienced or witnessed discrimination to immediately report the incident(s) to their manager, another manager, HR or the Concern Line. Vendors or contractors can use the same methods for reporting. We monitor all employee issues through our compliance-reporting measures and documentation. This monitoring helps us determine any additional training or resources that may be needed.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Responsibly Sourced Priority Ingredients and Materials, pages 25-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Human Rights Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

GRI 406: Non-Discrimination 2016

406-1

Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken

During 2025, in the U.S., Hershey did not have judicial or administrative determinations that it had committed any incidents of discrimination.

At our operations in countries outside of the U.S., discrimination is treated differently under legal and cultural norms. These differences create challenges in collecting specific information to constitute a response to this disclosure. We have no record of any judicial or administrative findings of incidents of discrimination at any of our locations.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program (data), page 57

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Supplier Program Audit Results (data), page 58

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: 2025 Non-Compliance Issues By Category (data), page 59

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

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Our HR and Legal departments are responsible for evaluating the management of freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, page 6

  • Corporate Governance

GRI 407: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining 2016

407-1

Operations and suppliers in which the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining may be at risk

Hershey recognizes and respects our employees' right to freedom of association and to collective bargaining consistent with federal and local laws and regulations.

We maintain a Supplier Code of Conduct that sets forth our expectations of suppliers and contractors regarding key business practices, including the rights of workers to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program (data), page 57

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: Supplier Program Audit Results (data), page 58

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: 2025 Non-Compliance Issues By Category (data), page 59

    See also:

  • Double Materiality Assessment

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

B4, C3.2

CHILD LABOR

MATERIAL TOPICS: CHILD LABOR; HUMAN RIGHTS (SUPPLY CHAIN)

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Child and Family Well-Being, pages 23-24

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Process

  • Progress on Priorities: Child Labor

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

A2, C2, C2.1

GRI 408: Child Labor 2016

408-1

Operations and suppliers at significant risk for incidents of child labor

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Child and Family Well-Being, pages 23-24

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: 2025 Non-Compliance Issues By Category (data), page 59

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

  • Progress on Priorities: Child Labor

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

C4.3, C5, C5.1

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR

MATERIAL TOPIC: HUMAN RIGHTS (SUPPLY CHAIN)

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

    See also:

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Palm Oil Grievance Process

  • Progress on Priorities: Child Labor

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

  • Sustainability Issues: Palm Oil

  • Sustainability Issues: Responsible Recruitment and Employment

A2.4, A2.5, B1

GRI 409: Forced or Compulsory Labor 2016

409-1

Operations and suppliers at significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labor

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

  • Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights: 2025 Non-Compliance Issues By Category (data), page 59

B4, C1.1, C2, C2.3, C3, C3.1, C3.2,

C4, C4.2, C4.3, C5, C5.1, C6, C6.1, C6.2, C6.3, C6.4, C6.5

See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

  • Progress on Priorities: Child Labor

  • Progress on Priorities: Cocoa

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Progress on Priorities: Responsible Sourcing

RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

    See also:

  • Corporate Governance

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

GRI 411: Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2016

411-1

Incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous peoples

In 2025, The Hershey Company did not identify any palm oil grievances involving the rights of indigenous peoples.

See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

HUMAN RIGHTS ASSESSMENT

MATERIAL TOPICS: HUMAN RIGHTS (SUPPLY CHAIN), FARMER LIVELIHOODS

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD), pages 46-47

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Corporate Governance

  • Ethics & Compliance: Hershey's Concern Line

  • Joining Forces to Protect Human Rights

  • Procedures For Submission And Handling Of Complaints Regarding Compliance Matters

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Progress on Priorities: Responsible Sourcing

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

  • The Hershey Company Terms

B2, C2, C4.2

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

LOCAL COMMUNITIES

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Progress on Priorities: Community

  • Progress on Priorities: Youth

GRI 413: Local Communities 2016

413-1

Operations with local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Progress on Priorities: Community

C2.2

413-2

Operations with significant actual and potential negative impacts on local communities

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients, pages 12-27

  • Make: Efficient Operations, pages 28-37

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Sustainability Policies and Governance, page 51

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

A2, C2.1, C2.2, C3.1, C4

SUPPLIER SOCIAL ASSESSMENT

MATERIAL TOPIC: RESPONSIBLE SOURCING; HUMAN RIGHTS (SUPPLY CHAIN)

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients: Resilient Farmers, pages 21-26

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Responsible Sourcing Supplier and Recruitment Programs, page 48

    See also:

  • Progress on Priorities: Human Rights

  • Progress on Priorities: Responsible Sourcing

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

  • Sustainability Issues: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program

A1, A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A2.1, A2.2,

A2.4, B2,C1.1, C2, C4.1, C6, C6.1

GRI 414: Supplier Social Assessment 2016

414-1

New suppliers that were screened using social criteria

All Hershey commercial contracts include language that requires suppliers to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct, which outlines our expectations with respect to B3, C1, C2.1, C6.5

social issues.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Responsible Sourcing Supplier and Recruitment Programs, page 48

    See also:

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • Sustainability Issues: Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program

  • Statement Against Slavery and Human Trafficking

414-2

Negative social impacts in the supply chain and actions taken

Assessing social impact is part of Hershey's Responsible Sourcing Supplier Program due diligence. In 2025, The Hershey Company did not identify any palm oil grievances involving social impacts in the supply chain.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Embedding Our Strategy: Responsible Sourcing Supplier and Recruitment Programs, page 48

    See also:

  • Palm Oil Grievance Log

PUBLIC POLICY

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Advocacy Expenditure Reports

  • Corporate Governance

  • Lobbying Disclosure Act Database

  • Political Action Committee Annual Report 2025

GRI 415: Public Policy 2016

415-1

Political contributions

  • Advocacy Expenditure Reports

  • Code of Conduct

  • Political Action Committee Annual Report 2025

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

CUSTOMER HEALTH AND SAFETY

MATERIAL TOPICS: FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY; NUTRITION AND HEALTH

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • 2025 Form 10-K, pages 3-6

  • Code of Conduct

  • Packaging Supplier Quality Expectations Manual

  • Supplier Code of Conduct

  • Supplier Quality Expectations Manual

  • Sustainability Issues: Food Safety

GRI 416: Customer Health and Safety 2016

416-1

Assessment of the health and safety impacts of product and service categories

100% of our products are designed and produced under a "hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls" approach.

See also:

  • Sustainability Issues: Food Safety

416-2

Incidents of non-compliance concerning the health and safety impacts of products and services

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Our Company Data: Food Safety (data), page 54

MARKETING AND LABELING

MATERIAL TOPICS: FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY; NUTRITION AND HEALTH

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Our Consumer Relations department reviews and answers all consumer-related questions and concerns about the ingredients and labeling on our products. It also proactively reviews social media posts and engages with individual consumers to ensure our labeling and marketing practices align with their expectations.

Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative: The Hershey Company Pledge

  • Corporate Governance

  • Hershey Frequently Asked Questions: Nutrition

  • The Ingredients Inside your Favorite Hershey Products

  • SmartLabel™

  • Sustainability Issues: Food Safety

  • Sustainability Issues: Marketing Responsibly

GRI 417: Marketing and Labeling 2016

417-1

Requirements for product and service information and labeling

  • The Hershey Company Position Statement on GMO Disclosures

  • Hershey Frequently Asked Questions: Nutrition

  • SmartLabel™

  • Sustainability Issues: Marketing Responsibly

417-2

Incidents of non-compliance concerning product and service information and labeling

In 2025, there were no material noncompliances with labeling laws or regulations.

417-3

Incidents of non-compliance concerning marketing

In 2025, there were no material noncompliances with marketing codes.

CUSTOMER PRIVACY

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

    See also:

  • Code of Conduct

  • Hershey Website Privacy Policy / Ad & Cookie Policy

GRI 418: Customer Privacy 2016

418-1

Substantiated complaints concerning breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data

Hershey has not received any substantiated complaints concerning breaches of customer privacy.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE

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Hershey 2025 Responsible Business Report:

  • Making Good for Our Future, pages 3-11

  • Source: Resilient Ingredients, pages 12-27

  • Make: Efficient Operations, pages 28-37

    See also:

  • Sustainability Issues: Food Safety

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