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Group Vice President, Hormel Foods International · Hormel Foods Corp (HRL)

Swen Neufeldt

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Swen Neufeldt as a named executive officer of Hormel Foods; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,583,080

6th of 6 named executive officers at Hormel Foods by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for Hormel Foods, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 17, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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Swen Neufeldt compensation by year

Hormel Foods Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Hormel Foods reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$363,077
Bonus$0
Stock awards$475,051
Option awards$325,108
Non-equity incentive$276,738
Pension and deferred compensation$94,754
All other$48,353
Total$1,583,080

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Hormel Foods Corp DEF 14A filed December 17, 2025, accession 0000048465-25-000074, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Hormel Foods Corp filed document, accession 0000048465-25-000074. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 17, 2025.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU5,565$132,617—
RSU5,375$128,094—
RSU4,865$115,934—
RSU4,607$109,778—
RSU3,519$83,870—
Option4,575—$42.43
Option22,000—$33.55
Option7,350—$46.84
Option20,475—$31.66
Option25,600—$33.55

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Hormel Foods Corp's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Hormel Foods discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$609,900—$609,900
Disability—$1,134,190—$1,134,190
Change in control, no termination—$689,117—$689,117

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Hormel Foods Corp's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Hormel Foods’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
James SneeFormer President and Chief Executive Officer$7,395,224
Jeffrey EttingerInterim Chief Executive Officer and Board Member$6,428,699
Jacinth SmileyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,730,149
John GhingoPresident and Board Member$2,401,213
Colleen BatchelerSenior Vice President, External Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$2,195,864
Swen Neufeldt · this pageGroup Vice President, Hormel Foods International$1,583,080

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