secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     22nd Century Group, Inc. (XXII)
CIK:        0001347858
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-09-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-22-098241
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

22nd Century Group eliminates President/COO role; Michael Zercher departs Sept 30, 2022
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- Michael Zercher, President and COO, will depart on September 30, 2022; position eliminated.
- CEO James Mish assumes title of Corporate President; John Miller takes over tobacco COO duties.
- Company cites accelerating growth in reduced nicotine tobacco business and successful VLN pilot.
- VLN received first and only FDA MRTP authorization for combustible cigarette in Dec 2021.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1347858/000110465922098241/0001104659-22-098241-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1347858/000110465922098241/tm2225320d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-098241

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