---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001001250-24-000119"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EL"
cik: "0001001250"
company_name: "ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:23:47.346692+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Fabrizio Freda to retire by end of fiscal 2025

## Summary
- Fabrizio Freda, President and CEO, notified Estée Lauder on Aug 19, 2024 of his retirement.
- Retirement effective at the end of fiscal year June 30, 2025.
- No successor has been announced; board will conduct a search.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001001250-24-000119
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EL
- cik: 0001001250
- company_name: ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125024000119/0001001250-24-000119-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125024000119/el-20240819.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001001250-24-000119
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001001250-24-000119.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001001250-24-000119.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Fabrizio Freda departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC.
  - Action: intends to retire
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: on August 19, 2024, Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to retire at the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001250/000100125024000119/0001001250-24-000119-index.htm

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