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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000046250-25-000059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HWKN"
cik: "0000046250"
company_name: "HAWKINS INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:39:46.296470+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hawkins VP, General Counsel & Secretary Richard Erstad to retire effective Dec 28, 2025

## Summary
- Richard G. Erstad plans to retire after 17 years as VP, General Counsel and Secretary.
- He will cease serving as an executive officer on December 28, 2025 (end of Q3 fiscal).
- Erstad will remain as an employee through May 2026 to ensure transition.
- No successor has been named; the company describes a planned transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000046250-25-000059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HWKN
- cik: 0000046250
- company_name: HAWKINS INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46250/000004625025000059/0000046250-25-000059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46250/000004625025000059/hwkn-20251217.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046250-25-000059.txt

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