---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-22-000202"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOFT"
cik: "0001077688"
company_name: "HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp"
filed_at: "2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T07:49:47.476955+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hooker Furnishings director E. Larry Ryder to step down at 2022 annual meeting

## Summary
- Ryder informed Board on Feb 9, 2022 he will not stand for re-election at June 7, 2022 annual meeting.
- He will serve through remainder of term; Board will reduce from 8 to 7 members.
- Decision not due to any disagreement with company, Board, or management.
- Ryder, 75, served as director since 2011, previously CFO and EVP for 34 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-22-000202
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOFT
- cik: 0001077688
- company_name: HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp
- filed_at: 2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518522000202/0001185185-22-000202-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518522000202/hookerfurn20220214_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-22-000202
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-22-000202.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-22-000202.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  E. Larry Ryder departed as Director at HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 9, 2022, E. Larry Ryder, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Hooker Furnishings Corporation (the “Company”) notified the Company of his decision not to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on June 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518522000202/0001185185-22-000202-index.htm

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