---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-022230"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MNST"
cik: "0000865752"
company_name: "Monster Beverage Corp"
filed_at: "2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T02:34:28.454161+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Monster Beverage Co-CEO Rodney C. Sacks to Step Down; Hilton H. Schlosberg to Become Sole CEO

## Summary
- Rodney C. Sacks will resign as Co-CEO effective 11:59 p.m. on June 12, 2025, and remain Chairman until Dec 31, 2026.
- Hilton H. Schlosberg will become sole CEO of Monster Beverage Corporation effective June 13, 2025.
- Sacks entered a transition letter agreement; base salary set at $900,000 annually from July 1, 2025.
- Sacks will oversee strategic direction of marketing, innovation, and litigation until employee retirement on Dec 31, 2026.
- After retirement, Sacks will serve as non-employee director through 2027 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-022230
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MNST
- cik: 0000865752
- company_name: Monster Beverage Corp
- filed_at: 2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/865752/000110465925022230/0001104659-25-022230-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/865752/000110465925022230/tm258762d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022230
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022230.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022230.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hilton H. Schlosberg was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Monster Beverage Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective June 13, 2025, Hilton H. Schlosberg will serve as the Company’s sole Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/865752/000110465925022230/0001104659-25-022230-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rodney C. Sacks departed as Co-Chief Executive Officer at Monster Beverage Corp.
  - Action: resign
  - Role: Co-Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Rodney C. Sacks, age 75, currently Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Monster Beverage Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Board and management of the Company on March 10, 2025 that in connection with his anticipated retirement, he will resign as Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective as of 11:59 p.m. on June 12, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/865752/000110465925022230/0001104659-25-022230-index.htm

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