---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001060822-25-000160"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRI"
cik: "0001060822"
company_name: "CARTERS INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T20:07:07.211239+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carter's declares $0.25 quarterly dividend, tightens special meeting rules

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share, payable December 5, 2025, to holders of record November 24, 2025.
- Bylaws amended: special meetings now require majority of directors or holder of >35% of common stock.
- Bylaws also update proxy requirements, director nomination procedures, and meeting adjournment rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001060822-25-000160
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRI
- cik: 0001060822
- company_name: CARTERS INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060822/000106082225000160/0001060822-25-000160-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060822/000106082225000160/cri-20251113.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001060822-25-000160
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001060822-25-000160.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001060822-25-000160.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CARTERS INC: Amended and restated By-Laws to update provisions regarding stockholder meetings, director nominations, and other governance matters (effective 2025-11-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-13
  source text: On November 13, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Carter’s, Inc. (the "Company") approved an amendment to the Company's By-Laws (the By-Laws, as so amended, the "Amended and Restated By-Laws").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060822/000106082225000160/0001060822-25-000160-index.htm

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