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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000016918-24-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STZ"
cik: "0000016918"
company_name: "CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T23:52:38.904759+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Constellation Brands appoints Sam Glaetzer as President of Wine & Spirits Division

## Summary
- Glaetzer appointed EVP and President, Wine & Spirits Division, effective March 11, 2024, succeeding Robert Hanson.
- He brings nearly 30 years of industry experience; joined Constellation in 2014 as managing director of NZ/Aus operations.
- Most recently SVP, Global Operations and International Sales; will also join executive management committee.
- CEO Bill Newlands says portfolio transformation largely complete; focus turns to commercial and operational execution for growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000016918-24-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STZ
- cik: 0000016918
- company_name: CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000001691824000026/0000016918-24-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000001691824000026/stz-20240311.htm

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