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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-312749"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LAKE"
cik: "0000798081"
company_name: "LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:53:06.207532+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Q3 net loss $16M, CFO departing Dec 31, dividend suspended, FY2026 guidance withdrawn

## Summary
- Q3 net sales $47.6M (+4% YoY); net loss $16.0M vs net income $0.1M YoY; adjusted EBITDA ex FX $0.2M (down 95% YoY).
- CFO Roger Shannon to leave Dec 31, 2025; VP Finance J. Calven Swinea appointed interim CFO effective Jan 1, 2026.
- Board suspends quarterly cash dividend; future payments at board discretion based on financial condition.
- Company withdraws FY2026 guidance citing tariffs, certification delays, and tender timing issues.
- Acquired Arizona PPE and California PPE for ~$9.8M; $5.6M HKFSD decontamination contract; $6.1M sale-leaseback of Decatur warehouse.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-312749
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LAKE
- cik: 0000798081
- company_name: LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798081/000119312525312749/0001193125-25-312749-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798081/000119312525312749/lake-20251204.htm

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