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accession: "0001193125-25-026105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001359841"
company_name: "Hanesbrands Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:10:55.395452+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hanesbrands CEO Stephen B. Bratspies to depart by end of 2025; board initiates search

## Summary
- CEO Stephen B. Bratspies to leave company at end of 2025; will also step down from board.
- He remains CEO until successor appointed, then serves as non-executive advisor through Dec 31, 2025.
- Severance per prior Severance/Change in Control Agreement; benefits consistent with involuntary termination without cause.
- Board has commenced comprehensive search for next CEO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-026105
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001359841
- company_name: Hanesbrands Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359841/000119312525026105/0001193125-25-026105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359841/000119312525026105/d935046d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-026105
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-026105.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-026105.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen B. Bratspies departed as Chief Executive Officer at Hanesbrands Inc..
  - Action: departing
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 13, 2025, Hanesbrands Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Stephen B. Bratspies, its Chief Executive Officer, would be departing the Company at the end of 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359841/000119312525026105/0001193125-25-026105-index.htm

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