---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-010681"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRWS"
cik: "0000025895"
company_name: "CROWN CRAFTS INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T22:49:22.526727+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Crown Crafts appoints Michael Benstock to Board of Directors, effective May 1, 2023

## Summary
- Michael Benstock, CEO of Superior Group of Companies (Nasdaq), appointed as Class II director.
- Appointment fills vacancy created by passing of Sidney Kirschner in February 2023.
- Benstock will serve on Audit Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee.
- He receives standard non-employee director compensation, prorated from start date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-010681
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRWS
- cik: 0000025895
- company_name: CROWN CRAFTS INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25895/000143774923010681/0001437749-23-010681-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25895/000143774923010681/crws20230419_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-010681.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Benstock was appointed as Director at CROWN CRAFTS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 18, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Crown Crafts, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Michael Benstock to the Board as a Class II director, effective on May 1, 2023, to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25895/000143774923010681/0001437749-23-010681-index.htm

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