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This excerpt taken from the HSY DEF 14A filed Mar 10, 2005.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
on
April 19, 2005


The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION will be held at 2:00 p.m. on April 19, 2005 at GIANT Center, 950 West Hersheypark Drive, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 for the following purposes:

(1)  
  To elect nine directors;

(2)  
  To ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent auditors for 2005;

(3)  
  To approve an amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value one dollar ($1.00) per share, from 450,000,000 to 900,000,000 shares, and to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, par value one dollar ($1.00) per share, from 75,000,000 to 150,000,000 shares;

(4)  
  To approve an amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to change the Company’s name to The Hershey Company; and

(5)  
  To transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting and any and all adjournments thereof.

In accordance with the By-Laws and action of the Board of Directors, stockholders of record at the close of business on February 22, 2005 will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting and any and all adjournments thereof.

By order of the Board of Directors,

Burton H. Snyder
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary

March 10, 2005

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