---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000768835-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000768835"
company_name: "FORMER BL STORES INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:43:48.232212+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Big Lots (BIGGQ) changes name to Former BL Stores, Inc. effective Sept 23, 2025

## Summary
- Name changed via Certificate of Amendment filed with Ohio Secretary of State on September 23, 2025.
- Board approved the amendment under Ohio law without shareholder vote.
- Trading symbol remains BIGGQ on the OTC market.
- No other changes to capitalization, rights, or governance were disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000768835-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000768835
- company_name: FORMER BL STORES INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/768835/000076883525000030/0000768835-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/768835/000076883525000030/big-20250923.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000768835-25-000030
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000768835-25-000030.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000768835-25-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FORMER BL STORES INC: Company changed its name from Big Lots, Inc. to Former BL Stores, Inc. via a Certificate of Amendment to its Amended Articles of Incorporation (effective 2025-09-23).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-23
  source text: On September 23, 2025, Big Lots, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Amended Articles of Incorporation (“Amendment”) with the Ohio Secretary of State to change its name to Former BL Stores, Inc. (the “Name Change”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/768835/000076883525000030/0000768835-25-000030-index.htm

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