---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-24-000634"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KO"
cik: "0000021344"
company_name: "COCA COLA CO"
filed_at: "2024-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T03:09:34.685192+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coca-Cola Board Director Helene Gayle Retires After 11 Years

## Summary
- Helene Gayle retired from Coca-Cola board effective December 13, 2024.
- She served as a director since 2013, former chair of talent & compensation committee.
- She was also a member of the corporate governance and sustainability committee.
- No replacement director named; Chairman/CEO James Quincey thanked Gayle for service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-24-000634
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KO
- cik: 0000021344
- company_name: COCA COLA CO
- filed_at: 2024-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21344/000155278124000634/0001552781-24-000634-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21344/000155278124000634/e24475_ko-8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000634.txt

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