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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-21-016693"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TR"
cik: "0000098677"
company_name: "TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T01:57:00.794988+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tootsie Roll Board halts additional excess benefit accruals for CEO Ellen Gordon effective Jan 2022

## Summary
- Board amended Post-2004 Excess Benefit Plan to allow excluding employees or discontinuing employer credits.
- By separate vote, Board discontinued accruing additional employer credits for Chair/CEO Ellen Gordon.
- Changes effective January 1, 2022; amendment filed as Exhibit 10.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-21-016693
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TR
- cik: 0000098677
- company_name: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837021016693/0001558370-21-016693-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837021016693/tr-20211210x8k.htm

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