---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-018665"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MGPI"
cik: "0000835011"
company_name: "MGP INGREDIENTS INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T06:59:22.317675+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MGP Ingredients Chief Legal Officer Curtis Landherr resigns; transition period through May 31, 2024

## Summary
- Curtis Landherr, Chief Legal Officer, VP, and Corporate Secretary, resigns effective May 31, 2024; officer roles end April 30.
- Company enters transition agreement providing one year base salary ($442K), pro-rated STI, relocation expenses up to $103,500, and $70K lump sum.
- Landherr will stay as non-officer employee through May 31 to assist transition; company begins search for successor general counsel.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-018665
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MGPI
- cik: 0000835011
- company_name: MGP INGREDIENTS INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835011/000162828024018665/0001628280-24-018665-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835011/000162828024018665/mgpi-20240422.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-018665.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Curtis C. Landherr resigned as Chief Legal Officer, Vice President, and Corporate Secretary at MGP INGREDIENTS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer, Vice President, and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On April 22, 2024, Curtis C. Landherr, the Chief Legal Officer, Vice President, and Corporate Secretary and a named executive officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (the “Company”) notified the Company that he is resigning from the Company, effective May 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835011/000162828024018665/0001628280-24-018665-index.htm

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