---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-048616"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LE"
cik: "0000799288"
company_name: "LANDS' END, INC."
filed_at: "2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T15:36:55.666739+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lands' End appoints Bernard McCracken as permanent CFO, effective Sept 14, 2023

## Summary
- Bernard McCracken, previously Interim CFO, named permanent CFO; also continues as Treasurer and principal accounting officer.
- Annual base salary set at $525,000; target annual incentive raised to 75% of base salary.
- Long-term incentive target for fiscal 2024 set at 110% of base salary.
- Severance agreement provides 12 months salary, benefits, outplacement, and imposes 12-month non-compete and 18-month non-solicitation.
- McCracken has been with Lands' End since 2014; prior roles at The Children's Place and Deloitte.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-048616
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LE
- cik: 0000799288
- company_name: LANDS' END, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799288/000095017023048616/0000950170-23-048616-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799288/000095017023048616/le-20230914.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-048616
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-048616.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-048616.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bernard McCracken was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at LANDS' END, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On September 14, 2023, Bernard McCracken, the Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Lands’ End, Inc. (the “Company”) was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799288/000095017023048616/0000950170-23-048616-index.htm

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