---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-024527"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AOUT"
cik: "0001808997"
company_name: "American Outdoor Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T13:16:03.585345+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Outdoor Brands amends cooperation agreement; nominates Bradley Favreau for re-election

## Summary
- Company agreed to nominate Bradley T. Favreau, Engine Capital designee, for re-election as Class III director at 2023 annual meeting.
- Favreau will continue serving on Compensation Committee.
- Cooperation agreement termination date extended to earliest of 30 days before 2024 annual meeting director nomination deadline, Favreau's departure, or May 24, 2024.
- No other modifications to the original August 2022 cooperation agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-024527
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AOUT
- cik: 0001808997
- company_name: American Outdoor Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808997/000095017023024527/0000950170-23-024527-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808997/000095017023024527/aout-20230324.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  American Outdoor Brands, Inc. amended Cooperation Agreement with Engine Capital, L.P. (effective 2023-05-24).
  - Action: amendment
  - Counterparty: Engine Capital, L.P.
  - Effective: 2023-05-24
  source text: On May 24, 2023, American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an amendment of the Cooperation Agreement (the “Amendment”) entered into by and among the Company and Engine Capital, L.P.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808997/000095017023024527/0000950170-23-024527-index.htm

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