– sweet and sour. The Fortune 500 will soon be a CEO from female CEOs to Hershey announced Yesterday, the long-time boss Michele Buck will be handed over to the reins of the chocolate maker of $ 11.2 billion on August 18.
Buck had already announced Your plans to retireBut by almost a year of timeline. Her successor is Kirk Tanner, a Pepsico-Alaun CEO from Wendy’s, who led the collaboration of the fast food chain with brands from Spongebob to Takis.
When the 2025 Fortune 500 was released a month ago, 55 companies on the list were led by female CEOs. Buck was one of the longer tenants under this group; She had run Hershey since 2017. She was well covered The average term a female Fortune 500 bosses who has been hovers for about four years for a decade. (It is seven for men – which Buck also beat.)
But Buck said according to the Wall Street Journalthat she remained in the CEO job for longer than plannedafter she was asked by her board. In her past few months, she has dealt with a difficult environment for the candy makers, from high cocoa prices to slowed consumer expenses to make the criticism of “America healthy again” Artificial dyes and processed foods.
In the Fortune 500, women still operate more than 10% of companies, if not the 11% that the status met in June. The 71-year-old ranking of America’s largest companies first crossed the 10% brand for female CEOs in 2023. A retirement of a CEO is hardly a problem for the big CEOs of female CEOs, but if they deal with numbers so small, every attitude or every matters. Hershey carried out a search for Buck’s replacement and went with an external candidate. Men seem to have an advantage here -between 2024 and 2025, no female managers were hired in Fortune 500 CEO jobs that were only promoted to them from the inside.
Emma Hinschliffe
Emma.Hinkniff@Fortune.com
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Makers and Schüttler
Conga, a sales process platform, appointed Celia Fleischaker as a new chief marketing officer. It recently served as CMO at Isolved.
The meadows, a Non-viral gene-based immunotherapy company at clinical level, funded Jill Buck To Chief Development Officer. Most recently, she was a senior vice president for clinical development operations in the company.
Uniii, a last-mile delivery company, announced the appointment of Sheila Berry As a new chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, she led logistics product partnerships worldwide at Shopify.
The university of St. Thomas appointed Dr. Sinda K. Vanderpool as a tenth president of the institution. She was last the PResidents and Vice Chancellor of St. Mary’s University.
Weidner Apartment Homes, a real estate and investment and real estate management company, appointed Lonna Torchia to the company’s executive Leadership team. She is currently an executive Vice President.
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Farewell words
“I was in every size in Hollywood. I was a sample size, I changed my body due to life, illness, age, age, and it is merciless wherever you are.”
–Lena Dunham, their Netflix Show Too much Premiere, premiere, About beauty standards in the entertainment industry
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