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Issuer:     HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/ (HRL)
CIK:        0000048465
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000048465-25-000012
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hormel Foods re-appoints former CEO Jeffrey Ettinger to Board, joins CEO Search Committee
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- Ettinger, chairman of The Hormel Foundation (owns ~46% of HRL common stock), re-appointed to Board effective March 21, 2025.
- Former president and CEO of Hormel Foods, retired in 2016 after nearly three decades with the company.
- Ettinger will serve on the Governance Committee and ad hoc CEO Search Committee.
- Receives same compensation as other non-employee directors; no other material changes disclosed.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846525000012/0000048465-25-000012-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846525000012/hrl-20250320.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-25-000012

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