WRLD_6.10.2015_8-K

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)      June 10, 2015
 
World Acceptance Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
South Carolina
 
0-19599
 
57-0425114
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

108 Frederick Street
        Greenville, South Carolina  29607
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)

(864) 298-9801
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable
(Former name or address, if changed from last report)

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Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Consistent with the CEO succession planning of World Acceptance Corporation (the “Company”) previously announced on June 2, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Ms. Janet Lewis Matricciani, the Company’s current Chief Operating Officer, as a director of the Company effective June 10, 2015 to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors.





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SIGNATURES

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.
Date: June 16, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
World Acceptance Corporation
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/ John L. Calmes Jr.
 
 
 
John L. Calmes Jr.
 
 
 
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 



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