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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-131049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BURL"
cik: "0001579298"
company_name: "Burlington Stores, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T17:50:30.459652+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Burlington Stores appoints Shira Goodman to Board of Directors effective Jan 1, 2025

## Summary
- Shira Goodman, former CEO of Staples, Inc., joins Burlington Board and Audit Committee effective January 1, 2025.
- She will receive annual retainer of $95,000 for Board, $18,000 for Audit Committee, plus $170,000 RSU award.
- CEO Michael O'Sullivan states her three decades of retail experience will support Burlington 2.0 strategy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-131049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BURL
- cik: 0001579298
- company_name: Burlington Stores, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579298/000095017024131049/0000950170-24-131049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579298/000095017024131049/burl-20241120.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-131049.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Shira Goodman was elected as Director at Burlington Stores, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 20, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Burlington Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Shira Goodman as a member of the Board effective as of January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579298/000095017024131049/0000950170-24-131049-index.htm

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