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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-005240"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DSS"
cik: "0000771999"
company_name: "DSS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T02:04:48.674264+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DSS grants 1M shares to director's affiliated company as bonus compensation

## Summary
- Board approved issuance of 1,000,000 shares of common stock to Heng Fai Holdings Limited, owned by Director Heng Fai Ambrose Chan, as a bonus for services rendered.
- Shares awarded under DSS, Inc.'s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan; approval by board on January 31, 2025.
- Issuance occurred on February 6, 2025; directed by Interim CEO Jason Grady.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-005240
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DSS
- cik: 0000771999
- company_name: DSS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/771999/000149315225005240/0001493152-25-005240-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/771999/000149315225005240/form8-k.htm

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