UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 15, 2020

 

ART’S-WAY MANUFACTURING CO., INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

     

000-05131

 

42-0920725

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

   

Identification No.)

5556 Highway 9

Armstrong, Iowa 50514

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

(712) 864-3131

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

     

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common stock $.01 par value

ARTW

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company     ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 

Item 7.01      Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On April 15, 2020, Art’s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that, due to the public health impact of the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19), the Company is offering its stockholders the ability to attend the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders remotely, via teleconference. The Company strongly discourages any stockholders from attending the Annual Meeting in person.

 

The information contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

 

Item 9.01        Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(a)     Financial statements: None

 

(b)     Pro forma financial information: None

 

(c)     Shell Company Transactions: None

 

(d)     Exhibits:

 

 

99.1

Press Release of Art’s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc., dated April 15, 2020.

 

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: April 15, 2020

 

 

ART’S-WAY MANUFACTURING CO., INC.

 

     
     
  /s/ Michael W. Woods   
 

Michael W. Woods

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ex_181306.htm

Exhibit 99.1

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 15, 2020

 

ART’S WAY MANUFACTURING ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCE OPTION FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

ARMSTRONG, IOWA, April 15, 2020 – Art’s Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (Nasdaq: ARTW), announces today that due to the public health impact of the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19), the Company is offering its stockholders the ability to attend the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders remotely, via teleconference. The Company strongly discourages any stockholders from attending the Annual Meeting in person.

 

The Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. CDT. To attend the Annual Meeting via teleconference, please call 1-866-895-5510 and enter a passcode of 409589.

 

If you plan to attend the Annual Meeting via teleconference, please promptly vote your shares by proxy prior to the Annual Meeting. In-person voting at the Annual Meeting will not be available if you attend the Annual Meeting via teleconference. You may vote by proxy over the telephone or the Internet as instructed in the previously-provided proxy statement. If you received a proxy card or voting instruction card by mail, you may submit your proxy card or voting instruction card by completing, signing, dating and mailing your proxy card or voting instruction card in the envelope provided with such materials. Stockholders who have previously sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet do not need to take any further action

 

About Art’s Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.

 

Art's Way manufactures and distributes farm machinery niche products including animal feed processing equipment, sugar beet defoliators and harvesters, land maintenance equipment, plows, hay and forage equipment, manure spreaders, reels for combines and swathers, as well as modular animal confinement buildings and laboratories, and specialty tools and inserts. After-market service parts are also an important part of Art’s-Way’s business. Art’s-Way has three reporting segments: agricultural products; modular buildings; and tools.

 

For more information, contact: Carrie Gunnerson, Chief Executive Officer

 

712-864-3131 

 

investorrelations@artsway-mfg.com

 

Or visit our website at www.artsway-mfg.com/