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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Flowers Foods (FLO)

Flowers Foods elects Shaun Mara and Ken Plunk to board, effective Nov. 18, 2026

Neutral Impact 2 of 5 leadership

Flowers Foods, Inc. said its board elected two new independent directors, Shaun P. Mara and Ken A. Plunk, effective November 18, 2026, and appointed both to the Audit and Finance Committees. The board will increase to ten members when the new directors take their seats.

Key points

  • Shaun P. Mara and Ken A. Plunk elected directors effective November 18, 2026, for terms expiring at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
  • Both appointed to the Audit Committee and Finance Committee
  • Board size will increase to ten members
  • Mara retired in June 2025 as CFO of The Simply Good Foods Company; Plunk is a former CFO of J&J Snack Foods

The filing

CompanyFlowers Foods (FLO)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECNov 4, 2026, 9:28 AM ET
Accession number0001193125-26-446367

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 7, 2026, 11:17 PM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only.

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