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    SEC Form S-8 POS filed by Daktronics Inc.

    7/24/25 2:43:28 PM ET
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    S-8 POS 1 dakt_2025xs-8.htm S-8 POS Document

    As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 24, 2025
    Registration No. 333-
    UNITED STATES
    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
    Washington, D.C. 20549
    _______________

    POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO.1
    TO
    FORM S-8
    REGISTRATION STATEMENT
    Under
    The Securities Act of 1933
    _______________

    daklogo.jpg

    Daktronics, Inc.
    (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
    _______________

    Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of
    incorporation or organization)
     
    46-0306862
     (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
       
    201 Daktronics Drive, Brookings, SD57006
    (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
    _______________

    Daktronics, Inc. 2007 Stock Incentive Plan
    (Full title of the plan)
    _______________
    Howard I. Atkins
    Daktronics, Inc
    201 Daktronics Drive
    Brookings, SD 57006
    (Name and address of agent for service)
    (605) 692-0200
    (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
    _______________
    Copies to:
    Michele D. Vaillancourt
    Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.
    225 South Sixth Street, Suite 3500



    Minneapolis, MN 55402
    (612) 604-6400

    Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
    Large accelerated filer o
    Accelerated filer x
    Non-accelerated filer o
    Smaller reporting company o
    Emerging growth company o

        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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. o





    EXPLANATORY NOTE

    Daktronics, Inc. (the "Company") is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Amendment") solely to deregister 4,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.00001 (the "Shares"), which Shares were registered for offer or sale to participants under the Daktronics, Inc. 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-146768) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on October 17, 2007 (the "Form S-8"). The Plan has been terminated, and the Company will no longer issue the Shares or any other securities under the Plan.

    In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Form S-8 to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, The Company hereby removes from the registration all of the Shares and any other securities of the Company that are registered but unsold or unissued under the Form S-8. Except as expressly stated herein, this Amendment does not otherwise have an effect on the Form S-8.




    SIGNATURES

    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookings, State of South Dakota, on July 24, 2025.

    Daktronics, Inc.
     
    By: /s/ Howard I. Atkins
    Howard I. Atkins, Acting Chief Financial Officer
    (Principal Financial Officer)








    POWER OF ATTORNEY

    Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Howard I. Atkins and Carla S. Gatzke, each of whom may act individually, as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution for such person and in such person’s name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Amendment or the Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but which taken together shall constitute one instrument.




    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
    SignatureTitleDate
    /s/ Bradley T. WiemannInterim Chief Executive OfficerJuly 24, 2025
    Bradley T. Wiemann(Principal Executive Officer)
    /s/ Howard I. AtkinsActing Chief Financial Officer and Director July 24, 2025
    Howard I. Atkins(Principal Financial Officer)
    /s/ Kevin P. McDermottDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Kevin P. McDermott
    /s/ John P. FrielDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    John P. Friel
    /s/ Shereta WilliamsDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Sherera Williams
    /s/ Lance D. BultenaDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Lance D. Bultena
    /s/ Dr. José-Marie GriffithsDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Dr. José-Marie Griffiths
    /s/ Andrew SiegelDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Andrew Siegel
    /s/ Peter FeiginDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Peter Feigin
    /s/ Reece A. KurtenbachDirectorJuly 24, 2025
    Reece A. Kurtenbach


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