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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000048465-24-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HRL"
cik: "0000048465"
company_name: "HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T11:58:47.282421+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hormel Foods: Mark Coffey retiring as group VP supply chain at end of Q2 FY2024; Lykken to succeed

## Summary
- Mark Coffey, group vice president of supply chain, retires at end of Q2 fiscal 2024 after nearly 40-year career.
- Steve Lykken, group VP of Jennie-O Turkey Store, promoted to group VP of supply chain, leading One Supply Chain.
- Lykken to oversee procurement, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, R&D, quality management, and plant operations.
- CEO Jim Snee praised Coffey's leadership through COVID pandemic and his operational expertise.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000048465-24-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HRL
- cik: 0000048465
- company_name: HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000002/0000048465-24-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000002/hrl-20240201.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000002
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000002.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Coffey departed as group vice president of supply chain at HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: will retire
  - Role: group vice president of supply chain
  source text: Mark Coffey, group vice president of supply chain, will retire at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000002/0000048465-24-000002-index.htm

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