---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-056675"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MAC"
cik: "0000912242"
company_name: "MACERICH CO"
filed_at: "2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T14:52:36.241368+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Eric K. Brandt not standing for re-election; board reduces to eight

## Summary
- Eric K. Brandt will not stand for re-election at the 2025 annual meeting.
- Brandt continues as director and committee chair until the annual meeting.
- Decision not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Board size reduced from nine to eight members effective at the 2025 annual meeting.
- Brandt served as director since 2018.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-056675
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MAC
- cik: 0000912242
- company_name: MACERICH CO
- filed_at: 2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912242/000119312525056675/0001193125-25-056675-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912242/000119312525056675/d903509d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-056675
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-056675.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-056675.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric K. Brandt departed as Director at MACERICH CO.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 12, 2025, Eric K. Brandt advised the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Macerich Company (the “Company”) that he will not stand for re-election as a director of the Company at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912242/000119312525056675/0001193125-25-056675-index.htm

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