---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-124769"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UVV"
cik: "0000102037"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/"
filed_at: "2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T14:34:52.299414+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Universal names Preston D. Wigner as Senior Vice President effective April 2024

## Summary
- Wigner, age 55, currently VP, General Counsel and Secretary, promoted to SVP effective April 1, 2024.
- New role focuses on executive management projects and engagements; compensation to be set later by Compensation Committee.
- No successor announced for General Counsel and Secretary position.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-124769
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UVV
- cik: 0000102037
- company_name: UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/
- filed_at: 2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102037/000110465923124769/0001104659-23-124769-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102037/000110465923124769/tm2332385d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-124769
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-124769.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-124769.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Preston D. Wigner was named as Senior Vice President at UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/.
  - Action: named
  - Role: Senior Vice President
  source text: On December 6, 2023, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Universal Corporation (the “Company”) named Preston D. Wigner, age 55, as Senior Vice President of the Company effective April 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102037/000110465923124769/0001104659-23-124769-index.htm

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