---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-24-006677"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LAKE"
cik: "0000798081"
company_name: "LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T13:51:32.569982+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Industries appoints James Jenkins as President and CEO effective June 1, 2024

## Summary
- Jenkins, previously Acting CEO and Executive Chairman, formally appointed CEO; remains Executive Chairman.
- Annual compensation: $525k base salary, 100% target bonus, 100% LTIP target (mix RSUs and PSUs).
- Receives one-time grants: 25,000 RSUs and 20,000 options, both vesting fully on 3rd anniversary.
- He will resign from Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Development Officer & Corporate Secretary roles at Transcat.
- Press release highlights two fire services acquisitions completed during his acting CEO tenure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-24-006677
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LAKE
- cik: 0000798081
- company_name: LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798081/000165495424006677/0001654954-24-006677-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798081/000165495424006677/lake_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-006677
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-006677.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-006677.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James M. Jenkins was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On April 10, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lakeland Industries, Inc. (“Lakeland” or the “Company”) appointed James M. Jenkins, our current Acting President and Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman, as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective June 1, 2024 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798081/000165495424006677/0001654954-24-006677-index.htm

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