---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-030709"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UFI"
cik: "0000100726"
company_name: "UNIFI INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T17:07:47.028115+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Unifi elects Frank Blake (former Home Depot CEO) to board of directors

## Summary
- Frank Blake elected to Unifi board effective Sept 5, 2022; term expires at 2022 annual meeting.
- Blake is non-executive Chairman of Delta Air Lines, former Chairman/CEO of Home Depot.
- Appointed to Compensation Committee; receives prorated annual retainer of $15,890 in stock units.
- Blake cited Unifi's sustainability leadership as key reason for joining board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-030709
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UFI
- cik: 0000100726
- company_name: UNIFI INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100726/000156459022030709/0001564590-22-030709-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100726/000156459022030709/ufi-8k_20220830.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-030709
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-030709.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-030709.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Francis S. Blake was elected as Director at UNIFI INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 30 , 2022 , the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Unifi, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Francis S. Blake, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc. and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Home Depot, Inc., to the Board, effective September 5, 2022, with a term expiring at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100726/000156459022030709/0001564590-22-030709-index.htm

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