Hershey's CEO Quit Unexpectedly in January: What Investors Need to Know

There's going to be a new nameplate before long on a C-suite door of candy company Hershey (HSY -1.25%). Just after market hours last Friday -- considered by many public relations professionals to be a suitable time slot to release bad news -- it announced that CEO Michele Buck will exit the company. This was an unexpected development. After all, Buck has been at Hershey for nearly 20 years, and CEOs at the conservatively managed company tend to stay for a while (Buck herself began her tenure in that positi ...