---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014707-25-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CAL"
cik: "0000014707"
company_name: "CALERES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T13:50:54.291874+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Caleres amends bylaws to reduce board size from 12 to 11, shareholders elect directors and approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- Board amended Article II, Section 1 of Bylaws to decrease number of directors from twelve to eleven, effective May 22, 2025.
- Shareholders elected 11 directors: Flavin, Freeman, Gendreau, Greeley, Gupta, Klein, Korn, Langenstein, Millard, Schmidt, Thorn.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditors with 28,200,124 votes for.
- Approved advisory say-on-pay resolution with 22,532,100 votes for.
- Broker non-votes were 3,850,065 on director elections and say-on-pay.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014707-25-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CAL
- cik: 0000014707
- company_name: CALERES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14707/000001470725000029/0000014707-25-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14707/000001470725000029/cal-20250522x8k.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014707-25-000029.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014707-25-000029.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CALERES INC: Decreased the number of directors from twelve to eleven (effective 2025-05-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-22
  source text: On May 22, 2025, the Board of Directors amended Article II, Section 1 of the Company’s Bylaws to decrease the number of directors from twelve to eleven, effective May 22, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14707/000001470725000029/0000014707-25-000029-index.htm

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