---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-007750"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HHS"
cik: "0000045919"
company_name: "HARTE HANKS INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T17:16:07.427771+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Harte Hanks eliminates authorized Series A Preferred Stock with no shares outstanding

## Summary
- Filed Certificate of Elimination with Delaware to cancel 1,000,000 authorized Series A Preferred shares.
- No shares of Series A Preferred were outstanding at the time; all cancelled and references removed.
- Series A Preferred had been designated in January 2018; now eliminated from corporate records.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-007750
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HHS
- cik: 0000045919
- company_name: HARTE HANKS INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000143774923007750/0001437749-23-007750-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000143774923007750/hhs20230324_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-007750.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  HARTE HANKS INC: Cancelation of 1,000,000 authorized shares of Series A Preferred Stock via Certificate of Elimination (effective 2023-03-20).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-20
  source text: On March 20, 2023, Harte Hanks, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Elimination (the “Certificate of Elimination”) with the Delaware Secretary of State with respect to 1,000,000 authorized shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”). The Series A Preferred Stock had been designated pursuant to the Certificate of Designation of Rights, Preferences and Privileges of Series A Preferred Stock of Harte Hanks, Inc. filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 29, 2018. As of the date of the filing of the Certificate of Elimination, no shares of Series A Preferred Stock were outstanding. Upon filing the Certificate of Elimination, all shares of Series A preferred Stock were cancelled and all references to Series A Preferred Stock were removed from the books and records of the corporation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000143774923007750/0001437749-23-007750-index.htm

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