---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001967649-25-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VSTS"
cik: "0001967649"
company_name: "Vestis Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:22:00.067466+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vestis appoints former UPS COO Jim Barber as President and CEO effective June 2, 2025

## Summary
- Jim Barber, 64, former UPS COO (2018-2020) with 35-year UPS career, named President and CEO effective June 2, 2025; will also join the Board.
- Base salary set at $950,000; target bonus of 125% of base salary; annual equity target of $4 million under LTIP.
- Initial sign-on RSU award of $3 million, cliff vesting on third anniversary.
- Severance: on non-cause termination, 18 months of base salary plus target bonus paid ratably; on qualifying change-in-control termination, 2x base plus target in lump sum.
- Employment agreement includes perpetual non-disclosure, 18-month non-compete and non-solicitation covenants.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001967649-25-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VSTS
- cik: 0001967649
- company_name: Vestis Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1967649/000196764925000033/0001967649-25-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1967649/000196764925000033/vsts-20250505.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001967649-25-000033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001967649-25-000033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001967649-25-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jim Barber was appointed as Director at Vestis Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Upon his assumption of the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, he will be appointed to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1967649/000196764925000033/0001967649-25-000033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jim Barber was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Vestis Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On May 5, 2025, Vestis Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Jim Barber as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of June 2, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1967649/000196764925000033/0001967649-25-000033-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.