70 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Our People Taking DEI Beyond Hershey Meet Some of Our Diverse — Our Supplier Diversity Suppliers Program Mays Chemical Company The Hershey Company has a commitment Mays is a Black- and woman-owned to and a track record of promoting DEI national distributor of chemical and raw in its supply chain. We aim to have our materials, offering vendor management, suppliers represent the customers and procurement services, blending and consumers we serve and believe this is repackaging. Mays has been a proud critical for innovation and business success. partner of Hershey for more than 10 Our supplier diversity program is currently years, providing exceptional quality and focused on the U.S. and supports economic service along the way. Throughout the growth for POC, women, veteran, LGBTQ recent pandemic, the company provided and disabled person-owned businesses. innovative sourcing solutions to overcome In 2021, we spent $92 million with 139 ever-changing supply chain challenges. 1 diverse suppliers, working toward our newly They are truly an innovative partner with established goal of $400 million by 2030. in-depth knowledge of the businesses In 2021, we brought in a new data partner they support. to strengthen our systems for tracking Chaucer Press, Inc. diverse supplier spend and to provide us Chaucer Press is a woman-owned with an improved tool for identifying and and award-winning industry leader in vetting new diverse vendors to include secondary packaging components, in bid opportunities. We also joined the supporting some of the largest National Minority Supplier Development multinational companies in the world, Council and Women’s Business Enterprise including Hershey. Chaucer Press is one of Center East to leverage their diverse our key strategic label suppliers, providing supplier networks and support their pressure sensitive labels for all our gum development of diverse businesses. and mint packages as well as in-mold labels To further integrate our supplier diversity for Hershey Syrup bottles. The company goals across our business, we engaged has been instrumental in helping drive all executive officers and their teams in our sustainability initiatives by partnering 2021. Supplier diversity champions were with our teams to research and qualify $92M nominated for each business group to recyclable label materials. spent with diverse help spearhead supplier diversity efforts 1 in partnership with procurement. We also suppliers in 2021 developed a new e-learning course on supplier diversity that will be launched early in 2022 to ensure all employees understand the importance of our program and how to play a role in achieving our goals. Finally, we enhanced our supplier diversity language in contracts to support an expansion of our 1 Diverse spend includes formal industry-recognized certification and self-certification, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 spend with U.S.-based suppliers. Diverse suppliers refers to businesses that Tier 2 program in 2022. are 51% owned, managed and controlled by women and/or Black, Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous, U.S. military veteran, LGBTQ+ and disabled persons, or other individuals that qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged.