---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-026237"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KR"
cik: "0000056873"
company_name: "KROGER CO"
filed_at: "2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T11:11:03.913387+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kroger names Ronald Sargent interim CEO and Chairman; salary $4.35M, 60,515 RSUs

## Summary
- Ronald Sargent appointed interim CEO and Chairman of the Board effective March 2, 2025.
- Annual base salary of $4,350,000, annualized for duration of service.
- Grant of 60,515 shares of restricted stock vesting one year from award date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-026237
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KR
- cik: 0000056873
- company_name: KROGER CO
- filed_at: 2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56873/000110465925026237/0001104659-25-026237-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56873/000110465925026237/tm259934d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026237.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 6fbf84433e
  claim: Ronald Sargent was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at KROGER CO.
  evidence_excerpt: as previously disclosed, on March 2, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Kroger Co. (the “Company”) appointed Ronald Sargent to serve as interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56873/000110465925026237/0001104659-25-026237-index.htm

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