---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107687-24-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WGO"
cik: "0000107687"
company_name: "WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T09:34:39.351970+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Winnebago Outdoors President Huw Bower departs; Chris West named successor

## Summary
- Huw Bower steps down as President of Winnebago Outdoors effective August 31, 2024; eligible for severance under Executive Officer Severance Plan.
- Christopher West, formerly SVP Enterprise Operations and Barletta Boats, appointed President of Winnebago Outdoors effective September 1, 2024.
- Barletta Boats President Jeff Haradine joins executive leadership team reporting directly to CEO Michael Happe.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107687-24-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WGO
- cik: 0000107687
- company_name: WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107687/000010768724000019/0000107687-24-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107687/000010768724000019/wgo-20240813.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107687-24-000019
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107687-24-000019.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107687-24-000019.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher D. West was appointed as President, Winnebago Outdoors at WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President, Winnebago Outdoors
  source text: Christopher D. West, who currently serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Enterprise Operations and Barletta Boats, will become President, Winnebago Outdoors, effective September 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107687/000010768724000019/0000107687-24-000019-index.htm
- Executive change
  Huw S. Bower departed as President, Winnebago Outdoors at WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: departing
  - Role: President, Winnebago Outdoors
  source text: On August 13, 2024, Winnebago Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Huw S. Bower, the Company’s President, Winnebago Outdoors, will be departing the Company on August 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107687/000010768724000019/0000107687-24-000019-index.htm

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