---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-008411"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWBI"
cik: "0001092796"
company_name: "SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T22:57:25.421823+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith & Wesson VP of Sales Sue Cupero to retire in May 2025; search underway

## Summary
- Susan J. Cupero notified Smith & Wesson of her retirement effective May 2025.
- Cupero has served as VP of Sales since 1979, over four decades with the company.
- CEO Mark Smith stated a search for her replacement will begin immediately.
- No successor named; company expects a smooth transition before her retirement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-008411
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWBI
- cik: 0001092796
- company_name: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312525008411/0001193125-25-008411-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312525008411/d856840d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-008411
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-008411.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-008411.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Susan J. Cupero departed as Vice President of Sales at SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Vice President of Sales
  source text: On January 13, 2025, Susan J. Cupero, Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Vice President of Sales, notified the Company that she will retire in May 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312525008411/0001193125-25-008411-index.htm

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