---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000048465-24-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HRL"
cik: "0000048465"
company_name: "HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:44:54.423350+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hormel Foods EVP Retail Deanna Brady to retire; John Ghingo returns as successor

## Summary
- Deanna Brady, executive vice president retail, retiring at end of fiscal 2024 (Oct. 27, 2024) after 28 years.
- John Ghingo, former Applegate president (2018-2022), rejoins Hormel Foods on Sept. 2, 2024.
- Ghingo will assume leadership of Retail segment on Oct. 28, 2024, as Brady's successor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000048465-24-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HRL
- cik: 0000048465
- company_name: HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000035/0000048465-24-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000035/hrl-20240813.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-24-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Deanna Brady departed as executive vice president, retail at HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: executive vice president, retail
  source text: On August 13, 2024, Deanna Brady, executive vice president, retail, of Hormel Foods Corporation (the “Company”) gave notice of her intent to retire at the end of fiscal 2024, October 27, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846524000035/0000048465-24-000035-index.htm

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