---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000815556-25-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FAST"
cik: "0000815556"
company_name: "FASTENAL CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T23:36:32.091374+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fastenal director Lundquist not standing for re-election; Ericson appointed to board

## Summary
- Nicholas J. Lundquist informed Fastenal he will not stand for re-election effective Jan 16, 2025, due to five-year term limit for former employees.
- Lundquist had served on the board since October 2019; departure is not because of any disagreement with the company.
- Board elected Brady D. Ericson as independent director effective Jan 16, 2025; Ericson is President/CEO of PHINIA Inc.
- Ericson appointed to Audit Committee; will receive pro rata director compensation for partial year of service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000815556-25-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FAST
- cik: 0000815556
- company_name: FASTENAL CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000051/0000815556-25-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000051/fast-20250116.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-25-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brady D. Ericson was elected as Director at FASTENAL CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: Also on January 16, 2025, the Board elected as a director of the Company, Mr. Brady D. Ericson, effective as of the same date, keeping the number of directors on the Board at eleven.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000051/0000815556-25-000051-index.htm
- Executive change
  Nicholas J. Lundquist departed as Director at FASTENAL CO.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 16, 2025, Nicholas J. Lundquist, a director of the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Fastenal Company (the "Company" or "Fastenal"), informed the Company that he will not stand for re-election as a director of the Company and tendered his notification of ineligibility, effective as of January 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000051/0000815556-25-000051-index.htm

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