---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-008194"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XELB"
cik: "0001083220"
company_name: "XCel Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T07:28:43.445357+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Xcel Brands receives Nasdaq delinquency notice for late filings; 10-K filed

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq delinquency notice on May 22, 2025 for non-compliance due to late 10-K and 10-Q filings.
- Filed delinquent 10-K on May 28, 2025; intends to file 10-Q by June 30, 2025 to regain compliance.
- Must submit compliance plan by June 30, 2025; any granted exception limited to October 13, 2025.
- No immediate effect on listing or trading of common stock on Nasdaq Capital Market.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-008194
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XELB
- cik: 0001083220
- company_name: XCel Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837025008194/0001558370-25-008194-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837025008194/xelb-20250522x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  XCel Brands, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding late filing.
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: late filing
  source text: May 22, 2025, Xcel Brands, Inc. (the “Company”), received a delinquency notification letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) stating since Nasdaq has not received the Company’s Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2025, and because the Company remains delinquent in filing its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company does not comply with Nasdaq’s Listing Rules for internal listing. ​ Nasdaq has informed the Company that, in accordance with Nasdaq’s April 29, 2025 letter to the Company, the Company until June 30, 2025 to subm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837025008194/0001558370-25-008194-index.htm

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