---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001760965-21-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KTB"
cik: "0001760965"
company_name: "Kontoor Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-08-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T08:26:59.678040+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kontoor Brands' General Counsel Laurel Krueger resigns, effective Aug 27

## Summary
- Laurel Krueger, EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, resigns effective August 27, 2021, to pursue another opportunity.
- No successor has been named; search for replacement will be initiated.
- Krueger notified the Company on August 18, 2021; effective date August 27, 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001760965-21-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KTB
- cik: 0001760965
- company_name: Kontoor Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-08-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1760965/000176096521000038/0001760965-21-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1760965/000176096521000038/ktb-20210818.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001760965-21-000038
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001760965-21-000038.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Laurel Krueger resigned as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Kontoor Brands, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On August 18, 2021, Laurel Krueger, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Kontoor Brands, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of her decision to resign from the Company, effective August 27, 2021, to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1760965/000176096521000038/0001760965-21-000038-index.htm

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