---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-033395"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FARM"
cik: "0000034563"
company_name: "FARMER BROTHERS CO"
filed_at: "2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T18:38:44.273750+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmer Bros. announces departure of Chief Field Operations Officer Tom Bauer

## Summary
- Tom Bauer, VP and Chief Field Operations Officer, departed effective April 8, 2025.
- No replacement has been named as of the filing date.
- Bauer oversaw field operations; departure is immediate without disclosed cause.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-033395
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FARM
- cik: 0000034563
- company_name: FARMER BROTHERS CO
- filed_at: 2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465925033395/0001104659-25-033395-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465925033395/tm2511876d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-033395.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: e24cbe1dad
  claim: Tom Bauer departed as Chief Field Operations Officer at FARMER BROTHERS CO.
  evidence_excerpt: announced the departure of Tom Bauer, the Company’s Vice President, Chief Field Operations Officer, effective April 8, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465925033395/0001104659-25-033395-index.htm

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