Close the acquisition of Lily's Confectionery
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 18 May 2021
- Due
- 31 Aug 2021
- Delivered
- 25 Jun 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The acquisition is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the next few months.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company completed the acquisition of Lily's Sweets, LLC on June 25, 2021, which is within the expected timeframe.
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A Hershey Company (The) 10-Q filed 2021-10-28
“On June 25, 2021, we completed the acquisition of Lily’s Sweets, LLC (“Lily’s”)” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -4.0% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 Oct 2021 to 1 Nov 2021). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- acquisition of Lily's Confectionery
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to customary regulatory approvals
- Depends on
- Regulatory
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “Late”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.
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