---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-000737"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGRP"
cik: "0001004989"
company_name: "SPAR Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:09:29.073567+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SPAR Group receives Nasdaq deficiency notice for missing 2024 annual meeting due to pending going-private merger

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq Noncompliance Letter on Jan 3, 2025 for failing to hold annual meeting in 2024 as required by Listing Rule 5620.
- Must submit compliance plan within 45 days (by Feb 18, 2025); if accepted, Nasdaq may grant exception until June 30, 2025.
- Missed meeting due to pending all-cash acquisition by Highwire Capital; stockholders approved on Oct 25, 2024, parties working to close.
- SPAR expects to go private after merger closing, after which shares would no longer trade on Nasdaq.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-000737
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGRP
- cik: 0001004989
- company_name: SPAR Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004989/000143774925000737/0001437749-25-000737-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004989/000143774925000737/sgrp20250107_8k.htm

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