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Issuer:     SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC (SAH)
CIK:        0001043509
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-178949
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 7.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Sonic Automotive founder and Executive Chairman O. Bruton Smith dies on June 22, 2022
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- O. Bruton Smith, founder and Executive Chairman, passed away on June 22, 2022.
- He served as Chairman and CEO from the company's 1997 organization until 2015.
- Smith was a leader in the retail automotive industry since 1966.
- No successor or interim leadership has been announced at this time.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000119312522178949/0001193125-22-178949-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000119312522178949/d361867d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-178949

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