---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-002649"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STZ"
cik: "0000016918"
company_name: "CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T03:10:30.749354+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Constellation Brands' Wine & Spirits President Robert Hanson to Step Down on Feb 29

## Summary
- Robert Hanson, EVP & President of Wine & Spirits Division, will step down on Feb 29, 2024.
- CEO Bill Newlands will serve as interim leader of the division until a successor is named.
- Company has initiated a search for a new leader for the Wine & Spirits business.
- Hanson led the division since June 2019 and served on the board from 2013-2019.
- Division's transformation to higher-end portfolio cited as Hanson's key accomplishment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-002649
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STZ
- cik: 0000016918
- company_name: CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000119312524002649/0001193125-24-002649-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000119312524002649/d667782d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002649
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002649.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002649.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert Hanson departed as Executive Vice President and President, Wine & Spirits Division at CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Executive Vice President and President, Wine & Spirits Division
  source text: On January 4, 2024, Robert Hanson, Executive Vice President and President, Wine & Spirits Division of Constellation Brands, Inc. (“Constellation” or the “Company”) and the Company mutually agreed that Mr. Hanson will step down from his role at the end of the Company’s fiscal year on February 29, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000119312524002649/0001193125-24-002649-index.htm

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