---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000815556-23-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FAST"
cik: "0000815556"
company_name: "FASTENAL CO"
filed_at: "2023-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T04:25:08.441982+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fastenal elects Target SVP Irene Quarshie to board as independent director

## Summary
- Irene A. Quarshie elected to Fastenal board effective June 9, 2023, increasing board size to 11.
- Quarshie serves as SVP of Global Supply Chain and Logistics at Target Corporation since March 2022.
- She is an independent director with no material transactions with Fastenal or her immediate family.
- Compensation includes pro-rata annual retainer and equity award for remaining 2023 board meetings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000815556-23-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FAST
- cik: 0000815556
- company_name: FASTENAL CO
- filed_at: 2023-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555623000035/0000815556-23-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555623000035/fast-20230609.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-23-000035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-23-000035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-23-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Irene A. Quarshie was elected as Director at FASTENAL CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 9, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Fastenal Company (the "Company") elected as a director of the Company Ms. Irene A. Quarshie, effective on June 9, 2023, increasing the number of directors on the Board from ten to eleven on this date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555623000035/0000815556-23-000035-index.htm

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