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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-25-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-07-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T02:12:35.491112+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman elects directors, names Marshall Farrer Chairman; declares $0.2265 dividend

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; Marshall B. Farrer named Chairman, succeeding Campbell P. Brown.
- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.2265 per share declared, payable Oct 1, 2025, to holders of record Sep 3, 2025.
- Company has paid regular dividends for 81 consecutive years and increased for 41 consecutive years.
- Stockholders ratified Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-25-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-07-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000073/0000014693-25-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000073/bfb-20250724.htm

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