---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000048465-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HRL"
cik: "0000048465"
company_name: "HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T03:52:09.525830+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hormel Foods CMO Scott Aakre to retire end of FY2025, appointed to board

## Summary
- Scott Aakre, group VP and chief marketing officer for Retail, will retire at end of fiscal 2025 after 35 years.
- Aakre was appointed to the Hormel Foods board of directors effective May 15, 2025.
- His retail marketing responsibilities will be transitioned internally.
- Board now has 12 members; Aakre also serves on The Hormel Foundation board.
- CEO Jim Snee and chairman Bill Newlands praised Aakre's leadership and community ties.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000048465-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HRL
- cik: 0000048465
- company_name: HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846525000018/0000048465-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846525000018/hrl-20250515.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-25-000018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-25-000018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000048465-25-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  D. Scott Aakre was elected as Director at HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 15, 2025, the Board of Directors (the Board) of Hormel Foods Corporation (the Company) elected D. Scott Aakre, the Company’s Group Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer – Retail, to the Board, effective the same date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48465/000004846525000018/0000048465-25-000018-index.htm

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