secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Mission Produce, Inc. (AVO)
CIK:        0001802974
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-205021
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Mission Produce formalizes CEO employment agreement with $775K base salary, adopts executive severance plan
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- Stephen Barnard's 5-year employment agreement includes $775K base salary, target annual bonus of 100% of base (max 200%).
- CEO severance: 2x (base + target bonus) for termination without cause/good reason outside CIC; full equity vesting during CIC.
- Severance Plan for CFO Bryan Giles and GC Joanne Wu: 1x (base+target) outside CIC, 1.5x inside CIC, plus COBRA and equity vesting.
- All benefits conditioned on signing release; 24-month non-solicitation covenant applies.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312523205021/0001193125-23-205021-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312523205021/d498780d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-205021

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