secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FARMER BROTHERS CO (FARM)
CIK:        0000034563
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-09-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-23-103017
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

CEO Deverl Maserang to depart Sept 30; board slate set for 2023 annual meeting
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- CEO Deverl Maserang's employment terminated without cause effective Sept 30, 2023; receives severance per prior agreement.
- Partial acceleration of 35,806 RSUs vesting on Sept 30 (92% of units originally scheduled for Nov 1, 2023 vesting).
- Directors David A. Pace and Bradley L. Radoff intend to stand for re-election at the 2023 annual meeting.
- Board to be fixed at seven members after annual meeting; slate includes Loretz-Congdon, Pace, Poe, Radoff, Zaman, one agreed director, and new CEO.
- Proposed slate would have extended standstill under October 2022 Cooperation Agreement if agreed earlier; current standstill not extended.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465923103017/0001104659-23-103017-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465923103017/tm2326615d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-103017

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