---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000057131-22-000116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LZB"
cik: "0000057131"
company_name: "LA-Z-BOY INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T07:48:32.969883+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# La-Z-Boy Portfolio Brands President Otis Sawyer to retire; Tj Linz named successor

## Summary
- Otis Sawyer, President of La-Z-Boy Portfolio Brands, plans to retire on June 30, 2023 after 29 years.
- Sawyer will serve in current role through April 29, 2023, then advisory until retirement.
- Tj Linz, currently President of La-Z-Boy Retail, will assume Portfolio Brands role at end of April 2023.
- A search is underway to fill the President, Retail Division position vacated by Linz.
- Linz joined La-Z-Boy in 2015 and has led Retail since 2019, driving profitable growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000057131-22-000116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LZB
- cik: 0000057131
- company_name: LA-Z-BOY INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/57131/000005713122000116/0000057131-22-000116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/57131/000005713122000116/lzb-20221204.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000057131-22-000116
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000057131-22-000116.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000057131-22-000116.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Otis S. Sawyer departed as Senior Vice President and President, La-Z-Boy Portfolio Brands at LA-Z-BOY INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Senior Vice President and President, La-Z-Boy Portfolio Brands
  source text: On December 4, 2022, Otis S. Sawyer, Senior Vice President and President, La-Z-Boy Portfolio Brands, informed La-Z-Boy Incorporated (the “Company”) of his intent to retire from the Company as of June 30, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/57131/000005713122000116/0000057131-22-000116-index.htm

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