On April 18, 2019, The Hershey Company (the “Company”) announced that Steven E. Voskuil has been appointed to serve as the Company's Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective May 13, 2019. In this role, Mr. Voskuil will oversee the Company's global finance organization and will serve as the Company's principal financial officer. Mr. Voskuil, age 50, joins the Company from Avanos Medical Inc. where he has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2014.

Prior to joining Avanos, Mr. Voskuil spent 23 years in various leadership positions with Kimberly-Clark International. As a result of Mr. Voskuil's hiring, Patricia A. Little, the Company's current Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, will retire effective May 31, 2019, consistent with her previously announced intention to retire in the spring of 2019.