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Issuer:     CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO (CENT)
CIK:        0000887733
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-09-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-24-227986
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Central Garden & Pet appoints Niko Lahanas as CEO, Brad Smith as CFO
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- Niko Lahanas, former CFO, becomes CEO and joins Board effective Sept 29, 2024.
- Brad Smith, former Pet Segment CFO, appointed CFO effective same date.
- Interim CEO Beth Springer returns to role of Lead Independent Director.
- Lahanas: annual base salary $900,000, target bonus 100%, target equity $1,000,000.
- Smith: annual base salary $450,000, target bonus 50%, target equity $250,000.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887733/000119312524227986/0001193125-24-227986-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887733/000119312524227986/d885128d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-227986

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