---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-006305"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBW"
cik: "0001113809"
company_name: "BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T09:23:55.068146+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Build-A-Bear appoints former Foot Locker CEO Richard A. Johnson to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointment effective March 5, 2025; Mr. Johnson named as independent Class III director.
- Will serve on the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
- Awarded 605 restricted shares vesting June 13, 2025; ongoing compensation aligned with other non-employee directors.
- Mr. Johnson retired as CEO and President of Foot Locker in 2022 after serving since 2014.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-006305
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBW
- cik: 0001113809
- company_name: BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774925006305/0001437749-25-006305-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774925006305/bbw20250305_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-006305
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-006305.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-006305.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard A. Johnson was appointed as Director at BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 5, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board to seven (7) members and appointed Richard A. Johnson to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774925006305/0001437749-25-006305-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.