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BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC

NASDAQ: BSET. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

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Alpha ID
alpha:company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9
SEC CIK
0000010329
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 15, 2026
Newest evidence
Feb 11, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Robert H. Spilman, Jr.Since Feb 5, 2026
Chair
Not published
Independent
8 / 99 directors published
Published claims
273 distinct sources
Evidence records
80 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 3 distinct sources and 8 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

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EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

Bruce R. Cohenour executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.

EffectiveEffective Feb 5, 2026E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Senior Vice President, Chief Sales OfficerBruce R. CohenourFeb 2026currentSource reportedE3
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative OfficerJ. Michael DanielFeb 2026currentSource reportedE4
General Counsel, Vice President and SecretaryJay R. HerveyFeb 2026currentSource reportedE5
Senior Vice President, Chief Operations OfficerJohn E. Bassett IIIFeb 2026currentSource reportedE6
Chief Executive Officer and President, Chairman of the Board of DirectorsRobert H. Spilman, Jr.Feb 2026currentSource reportedE7

Board of directors

Evidence

9 directors published. 8 of 9 with a published determination are independent.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Emma S. BattleIndependent2020AuditSource reportedE2
J. Walter McDowellIndependent2011AuditSource reportedE2
James E. GoergenIndependent2025None publishedSource reportedE2
John R. BelkIndependent2016AuditSource reportedE2
Kristina CashmanIndependent2007None publishedSource reportedE2
Robert H. Spilman, Jr.Not independent1997None publishedSource reportedE2
Virginia W. HamletIndependent2018Nominating and GovernanceSource reportedE2
William C. Wampler, Jr.Independent2004Nominating and Governance, chairNominating and Governance · ChairSource reportedE2
William C. Warden, Jr.Independent2004Nominating and GovernanceSource reportedE2
Kristina CashmanIndependence not publishedNot publishedAudit, chairSource reportedE8

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
AuditKristina CashmanKristina Cashman, Emma S. Battle, J. Walter McDowell, John R. BelkNot described in the published record
Nominating and GovernanceWilliam C. Wampler, Jr.William C. Wampler, Jr., Virginia W. Hamlet, William C. Warden, Jr.Not described in the published record
Nominating and Governance · ChairNot publishedWilliam C. Wampler, Jr.Not described in the published record
Committee AppointmentKristina Cashman: chair, Audit
Source reportedE8
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Committee AppointmentEmma S. Battle: member, Audit
Source reportedE8
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Committee AppointmentJ. Walter McDowell: member, Audit
Source reportedE8
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Committee AppointmentJohn R. Belk: member, Audit
Source reportedE8
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Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair William C. Wampler, Jr.; Members William C. Wampler, Jr. (Chair); Virginia W. Hamlet; William C. Warden, Jr.
Source reportedE8
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Committee AppointmentWilliam C. Wampler, Jr.: chair, Nominating and Governance
Source reportedE8
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Committee AppointmentVirginia W. Hamlet: member, Nominating and Governance
Source reportedE8
company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9:committee_appointment:26
Committee AppointmentWilliam C. Warden, Jr.: member, Nominating and Governance
Source reportedE8
company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9:committee_appointment:27

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerRobert H. Spilman, Jr., Chief Executive Officer and President, Chairman of the Board of Directors, from Feb 5, 2026
Source reportedE7
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Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
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AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingBSET (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9:security_listing:28
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 16, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
Source reportedE1
company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:ddb9cc41-0b47-4476-8ee2-c061e8ca20d9:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

This record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.

Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
8 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 15, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC DEF 14A 2026-02-11
    sec proxy. Published Feb 11, 2026. Retrieved Apr 25, 2026. Cited by 9 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    BSET 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 5, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    BSET 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 5, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    BSET 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 5, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    BSET 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 5, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  7. E7
    BSET 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 5, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  8. E8
    Audit
    board_seats. board seats. Cited by 9 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 15, 2026
  • Bruce R. Cohenour executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.
  • J. Michael Daniel executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.
  • Jay R. Hervey executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.
  • John E. Bassett III executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.
  • Robert H. Spilman, Jr. executive of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2026-02-05.
  • James E. Goergen seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2025-01-01.
  • Emma S. Battle seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Emma S. Battle member of Audit, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Virginia W. Hamlet seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2018-01-01.
  • Virginia W. Hamlet member of Nominating and Governance, effective 2018-01-01.
  • John R. Belk seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2016-01-01.
  • J. Walter McDowell seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2011-01-01.
  • Kristina Cashman seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2007-01-01.
  • William C. Wampler, Jr. seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2004-01-01.
  • William C. Warden, Jr. seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2004-01-01.
  • Nominating and Governance · Chair committee of BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 2004-01-01.
  • William C. Wampler, Jr. member of Nominating and Governance · Chair, effective 2004-01-01.
  • Robert H. Spilman, Jr. seat on BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC, effective 1997-01-01.
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  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people14
  17. Subject and corrections6
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    BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INCCompany
  • Bruce R. CohenourPerson
  • J. Michael DanielPerson
  • Jay R. HerveyPerson
  • John E. Bassett IIIPerson
  • Robert H. Spilman, Jr.Person
  • Emma S. BattlePerson
  • J. Walter McDowellPerson
  • James E. GoergenPerson
  • John R. BelkPerson
  • Kristina CashmanPerson
  • Virginia W. HamletPerson
  • William C. Wampler, Jr.Person
  • William C. Warden, Jr.Person
  • Kristina CashmanPerson
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    OverviewBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • MonitoringBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • LeadershipBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • BoardBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • CommitteesBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • Control and votingBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • Authority to actBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • FinancialsBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • GovernanceBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • RiskBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • AI oversightBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • LegalBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
  • CompensationBASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC
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