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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001437749-25-016987
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250515
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250515

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ESCALADE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000033488
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	 [3949]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		EIN:				132739290
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			IN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-06966
		FILM NUMBER:		25948628

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		817 MAXWELL AVE.
		CITY:			EVANSVILLE
		STATE:			IN
		ZIP:			47711
		BUSINESS PHONE:		812-467-4449

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		817 MAXWELL AVE.
		CITY:			EVANSVILLE
		STATE:			IN
		ZIP:			47711

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	MARTIN YALE BUSINESS MACHINES CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19820310

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	MARTIN YALE INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19720306

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19710504
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			<td style="text-align: center;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</td>
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			<td style="width: 35%; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">817 Maxwell Ave, Evansville, Indiana</td>
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			<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stephen R. Wawrin, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, (812) 467-4449</td>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><b>Section 1 </b>&#8211;<b> Conflict Minerals Disclosure</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><b>Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><b>Conflict Minerals Disclosure</b></p>

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<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">This Form SD of Escalade, Incorporated (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024.</p>

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<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Rule 13p-1 (the &#8220;Rule&#8221;) requires companies with conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of a product manufactured by such company, or contracted to be manufactured by such company, to disclose annually whether any of those minerals originated in a &#8220;Covered Country.&#8221; The Rule specifies conflict minerals as: (1) gold, (2) columbite-tantalite (coltan), (3) cassiterite, (4) wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten, and (5) any other mineral or its derivative determined by the U.S. Secretary of State to be financing conflict in a Covered Country (collectively, the &#8220;Conflict Minerals&#8221;). The Rule specifies &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221; as: (1) Democratic Republic of the Congo, (2) the Republic of the Congo, (3) Central African Republic, (4) South Sudan, (5) Uganda, (6) Rwanda, (7) Burundi, (8) Tanzania, (9) Zambia and (10) Angola. The Company manufactures, and contracts to manufacture, products for which the Conflict Minerals are necessary (the &#8220;Necessary Conflict Minerals&#8221;) to the functionality or production of such products.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;text-indent:36pt;">The Company has adopted a Conflict Mineral Compliance Program pursuant to which the Company has conducted a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the Necessary Conflict Minerals. This inquiry was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Necessary Conflict Minerals originated in any Covered Country and whether any of the Necessary Conflict Minerals may be from recycled or scrap sources. The Conflict Minerals Compliance Program incorporates the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, a nationally and internationally recognized due diligence framework under the Rule. Such Guidance includes the following five-step framework that the Company has adopted: (1) establishing strong management systems, (2) identifying and assessing risk in the supply chains, (3) designing and implementing a strategy to respond to identified risk, (4) carrying out independent third-party audit of smelters/refiners&#8217; due diligence practices, and (5) reporting annually on supply chain due diligence.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;text-indent:36pt;">Based on the Company&#8217;s reasonable country of origin inquiry, the Company has no reason to believe that any Necessary Conflict Mineral originated in any Covered Country or did not come from recycled or scrap sources. Information regarding the Company&#8217;s Conflict Mineral Compliance Program is publicly available at <u>https://escaladeinc.com/governance-documents</u>.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;text-indent:36pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Escalade, Incorporated has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.</p>

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