Exhibit 3
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION
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HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION
By: /s/Richard H. Lenny
Richard H. Lenny,
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Hershey Foods Corporation (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:
1. The Board of Directors of the Corporation, at a meeting duly convened and held on February 15, 2005, adopted
resolutions proposing and declaring it advisable and in the best interests of the Corporation that the Restated Certificate
of Incorporation of the Corporation be amended as follows:
(a) Article First of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation is amended in its entirety by substituting in lieu
thereof the following:
FIRST. Name.
The name of the Corporation is The Hershey Company.
(b) Article Fourth, the first two sentences of subparagraph A, subparagraph A1, and subparagraph A2 of the
Restated Certificate of Incorporation are amended in their entirety by substituting in lieu thereof the following:
FOURTH. Capital Stock.
A. Classes and Number of Shares . The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall
have authority to issue is 1,055,000,000 shares. The classes and the aggregate number of shares of stock of each class
which the Corporation shall have authority to issue are as follows:
1. 900,000,000 shares of Common Stock, one dollar ($1.00) par value (hereinafter the “Common Stock”).
2. 150,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, one dollar ($1.00) par value (hereinafter the “Class B
Common Stock”).
2. Thereafter, pursuant to resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporati