---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000027996-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DLX"
cik: "0000027996"
company_name: "DELUXE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:37:13.402885+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Deluxe elects former Truist COO Hugh Cummins to board; two directors not seeking re-election

## Summary
- Hugh S. "Beau" Cummins III elected to Deluxe board effective February 21, 2025.
- Cummins is a 36-year banking veteran, most recently Vice Chair and COO of Truist Financial.
- William C. Cobb and Martyn R. Redgrave notified they will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting.
- Board affirmed Cummins qualifies as independent director under NYSE standards.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000027996-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DLX
- cik: 0000027996
- company_name: DELUXE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000002799625000007/0000027996-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000002799625000007/dlx-20250122.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000027996-25-000007.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Martyn R. Redgrave departed as Director at DELUXE CORP.
  - Action: not standing for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: each of William C. Cobb and Martyn R. Redgrave notified the Board on January 22, 2025 that each of them has decided not to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000002799625000007/0000027996-25-000007-index.htm
- Executive change
  William C. Cobb departed as Director at DELUXE CORP.
  - Action: not standing for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: each of William C. Cobb and Martyn R. Redgrave notified the Board on January 22, 2025 that each of them has decided not to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000002799625000007/0000027996-25-000007-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.