secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Simply Good Foods Co (SMPL)
CIK:        0001702744
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-005379
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Simply Good Foods reappoints Joe Scalzo as CEO; Tanner departs
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- Joe Scalzo returns as President and CEO effective Jan 19, 2026, succeeding Geoff Tanner who stepped down Jan 18.
- Scalzo previously served as CEO (2017-2023) and Executive Vice Chair; will join Board on Jan 28, 2026.
- Scalzo employment: $1.1M base salary, 150% target bonus, inducement option for 2M shares vesting over 3 years.
- Tanner severance: $3.52M cash, $350,568 prorated bonus, and accelerated vesting of certain equity awards.
- Chief Accounting Officer Timothy Matthews resigns Feb 6; CFO Christopher Bealer to serve as principal accounting officer.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465926005379/0001104659-26-005379-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465926005379/tm263640d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-005379

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