---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-000405"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETD"
cik: "0000896156"
company_name: "ETHAN ALLEN INTERIORS INC"
filed_at: "2022-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T20:48:55.631832+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ethan Allen EVP Operations & Manufacturing Corey Whitely steps down effective Jan 14, 2022

## Summary
- Corey Whitely, EVP Operations, Manufacturing and Technology, will step down from full-time role on January 14, 2022.
- Whitely, with the company since 1988, will transition to a non-employee consultant advisory role.
- No successor has been announced in the filing; Whitely will remain available as needed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-000405
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETD
- cik: 0000896156
- company_name: ETHAN ALLEN INTERIORS INC
- filed_at: 2022-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896156/000143774922000405/0001437749-22-000405-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896156/000143774922000405/eth20220105_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-000405
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-000405.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-000405.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Corey Whitely departed as Executive Vice President, Operations, Manufacturing and Technology at ETHAN ALLEN INTERIORS INC.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Operations, Manufacturing and Technology
  source text: On January 3, 2022, Corey Whitely, Executive Vice President, Operations, Manufacturing and Technology, informed Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (“Ethan Allen” or the “Company”) of his planned intention to step down from his full-time employment role and transition out of the Company and into an advisory role, effective January 14, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896156/000143774922000405/0001437749-22-000405-index.htm

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