---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001227654-21-000289"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMP"
cik: "0001227654"
company_name: "COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2021-11-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T07:17:43.327947+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Minerals director Richard S. Grant resigns immediately; board reduces to 8 members

## Summary
- Richard S. Grant resigned from the board effective November 16, 2021, after serving since 2004.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Board size reduced from nine to eight members; no replacement named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001227654-21-000289
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMP
- cik: 0001227654
- company_name: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2021-11-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765421000289/0001227654-21-000289-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765421000289/cmp-20211116.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001227654-21-000289.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard S. Grant resigned as Director at COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 16, 2021, Richard S. Grant, a member of the board of directors of Compass Minerals International, Inc. (the “Company”), tendered his immediate resignation from the Company’s board of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765421000289/0001227654-21-000289-index.htm

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