secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO (CENT)
CIK:        0000887733
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000887733-25-000009
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Central Garden & Pet approves FY2024 bonuses, salary increases, elects directors
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- Mary Beth Springer (former interim CEO) received $920,000 bonus for FY2024.
- CEO Nicholas Lahanas received $245,000 bonus; Hanson, Walker, Brown got $341k, $167k, $132k.
- Base salaries raised to $568k (Hanson), $567k (Walker), and $309k (Brown) effective Jan 1, 2025.
- All 10 director nominees elected at Feb 12 annual meeting; Deloitte ratified as auditor.
- Director William Brown had 16.9M votes for, 2.4M withheld; Christopher Metz had 14.0M for, 5.3M withheld.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887733/000088773325000009/0000887733-25-000009-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887733/000088773325000009/cent-20250218.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000887733-25-000009

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