---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-045036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SXT"
cik: "0000310142"
company_name: "SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:51:58.145459+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sensient amends by-laws to eliminate Finance Committee, reassign duties to Audit and Compensation Committees

## Summary
- Board removed all Finance Committee references from Amended and Restated By-Laws effective December 4, 2025.
- Finance Committee responsibilities transferred to Audit and Compensation and Development Committees.
- No changes to officer roles, fiscal year, or capital structure.
- Governance restructuring is procedural; no financial impact disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-045036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SXT
- cik: 0000310142
- company_name: SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036125045036/0001140361-25-045036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036125045036/ef20060711_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-045036.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP: Removed references to the Finance Committee and transferred its responsibilities to the Audit and Compensation and Development Committees (effective 2025-12-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-04
  source text: On December 4, 2025, the Board of Directors of Sensient Technologies Corporation adopted an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (the “Amended By-Laws”), effective immediately, to: (i) remove all references to the Finance Committee and (ii) reflect that the responsibilities previously within the scope of the Finance Committee have been transferred to the Audit and Compensation and Development Committees.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036125045036/0001140361-25-045036-index.htm

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