---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-027807"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMP"
cik: "0001227654"
company_name: "COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T05:32:05.330740+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Minerals cuts 10% of workforce, exits Fortress fire retardant business

## Summary
- Nearly 50 positions eliminated, reducing corporate and Fortress workforce by over 10%.
- Fortress North America fire retardant business wound down; all employees terminated.
- Expects non-cash impairment on Fortress assets and non-cash gain on elimination of contingent consideration in Q2 FY2025.
- Run-rate cost savings estimated at $11M-$13M based on trailing 12 months ended Dec 31, 2024.
- Jennifer Hood departs as Chief Supply Chain Officer; Benjamin Nichols named Chief Commercial Officer at $435k base salary.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-027807
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMP
- cik: 0001227654
- company_name: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465925027807/0001104659-25-027807-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465925027807/tm2510340d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jennifer Hood departed as Chief Supply Chain Officer at COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: ceased to serve
  - Role: Chief Supply Chain Officer
  source text: Effective March 25, 2025, Jennifer Hood ceased to serve as Chief Supply Chain Officer of Compass Minerals International, Inc. (the "Company").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465925027807/0001104659-25-027807-index.htm
- Executive change
  Benjamin Nichols was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer at COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Commercial Officer
  source text: Effective March 25, 2025, Benjamin Nichols, the Company’s Chief Sales Officer, was appointed the Company’s Chief Commercial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465925027807/0001104659-25-027807-index.htm

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