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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-001322"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOFT"
cik: "0001077688"
company_name: "HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp"
filed_at: "2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:02:24.149559+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hooker Furnishings terminates Chief Administration Officer, targets $25M cost savings

## Summary
- Anne J. Smith, Chief Administration Officer, terminated effective October 31, 2025; plans to retire.
- Severance consistent with 'without cause' provisions from May 2025 proxy statement.
- CEO Jeremy Hoff says termination is part of initiative to reduce fixed costs by $25 million (25%).
- Smith had been with Hooker for 17 years, serving as CAO since 2018 and earlier as HR Director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-001322
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOFT
- cik: 0001077688
- company_name: HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp
- filed_at: 2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518525001322/0001185185-25-001322-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518525001322/hoft8k092925.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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