---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000063754-24-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKC"
cik: "0000063754"
company_name: "MCCORMICK & CO INC"
filed_at: "2024-11-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T19:17:47.852865+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# McCormick's Executive Chairman Kurzius to retire Dec 31; CEO Foley to become Chairman Jan 1, 2025

## Summary
- Lawrence Kurzius retires as employee and Executive Chairman Dec 31, 2024; remains non-executive director until 2025 annual meeting.
- Brendan Foley, President and CEO, appointed Chairman of the Board effective Jan 1, 2025.
- Foley joined McCormick in 2014; previously held roles including President U.S. Consumer and President and COO.
- Kurzius served 22 years at McCormick, transitioned CEO role to Foley in Sep 2023.
- Board states transition is part of planned executive succession; Foley continues as CEO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000063754-24-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKC
- cik: 0000063754
- company_name: MCCORMICK & CO INC
- filed_at: 2024-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63754/000006375424000068/0000063754-24-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63754/000006375424000068/mkc-20241119.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000063754-24-000068
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000063754-24-000068.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000063754-24-000068.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lawrence E. Kurzius departed as Executive Chairman at MCCORMICK & CO INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Mr. Lawrence E. Kurzius, Executive Chairman of McCormick & Company, Incorporated (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to retire as an employee of the Company and and as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63754/000006375424000068/0000063754-24-000068-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brendan M. Foley was appointed as Chairman of the Board at MCCORMICK & CO INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: the Board appointed Mr. Brendan M. Foley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and current member of the Board, to succeed Mr. Kurzius as Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63754/000006375424000068/0000063754-24-000068-index.htm

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