ITEM 5 – OTHER INFORMATION
−Removed: (c) During the first quarter of 2026, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: (c) During the second quarter of 2026, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
ITEM 6 – EXHIBITS
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Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, effective as of February 25, 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed on March 19, 2026).
−Removed: Certifications required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (filed herewith)
+Added: Certification required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (filed herewith)
+Added: Certification required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (filed herewith)
Certifications pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 USC 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (furnished herewith).
−Removed: The following materials from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 4, 2026 formatted in Inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language):
−Removed: (i) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the three months ended April 4, 2026 and March 29, 2025;
−Removed: (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) for the three months ended April 4, 2026, and March 29, 2025;
−Removed: (iii) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) as of April 4, 2026 and January 3, 2026;
−Removed: (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Unaudited) for the three months ended April 4, 2026 and March 29, 2025;
−Removed: (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the three months ended April 4, 2026 and March 29, 2025 and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (submitted herewith).
+Added: The following materials from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 4, 2026 formatted in Inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language):
+Added: (i) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the three and six months ended July 4, 2026 and June 28, 2025;
+Added: (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) for the three and six months ended July 4, 2026, and June 28, 2025;
+Added: (iii) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) as of July 4, 2026 and January 3, 2026;
+Added: (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Unaudited) for the six months ended July 4, 2026 and June 28, 2025;
+Added: (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the six months ended July 4, 2026 and June 28, 2025 and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (submitted herewith).
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and included in Exhibit 101).
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THE EASTERN COMPANY
+Added: August 11, 2026
/s/ Ryan Schroeder
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President and Chief Executive Officer
+Added: August 11, 2026
/s/ Nicholas Vlahos
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.