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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001062993-25-011316
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	PX14A6G
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20250610
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250610
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20250610

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SPAR Group, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001004989
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC [7389]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		EIN:				330684451
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-27408
		FILM NUMBER:		251036955

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1910 OPDYKE COURT
		CITY:			AUBURN HILLS
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			48326
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2483647727

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1910 OPDYKE COURT
		CITY:			AUBURN HILLS
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			48326

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SPAR GROUP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19990713

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PIA MERCHANDISING SERVICES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19951220

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BROWN ROBERT G/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001090394
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BROWN ROBERTG //
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19990713
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    <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 10pt;"><b>U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</b></p>
    <p style="margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Washington, DC 20549</b></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 10pt;"><b>Notice of Exempt Solicitation</b></p>
    <p style="margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Submitted Pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)</b></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">1.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font><b>Name of the Registrant</b>: SPAR Group, Inc.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">2.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font><b>Name of person relying on exemption</b>: Robert G. Brown.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">3.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font><b>Address of person relying on exemption</b>: c/o Wuersch &amp; Gering LLP, 100 Wall St. 10th Fl., New York NY 10005, Attn. Travis L. Gering, Partner.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">4.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font><b>Written materials pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)(1)</b>:&#160; <b>Robert G. Brown</b>, hereinafter referred to as "Mr. Brown", holding directly and indirectly 6,469,683 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share ("<i><b>Common Stock</b></i>")<a name="_ftnref1"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn1"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>1</sup></font></a> in SPAR Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "<i><b>Company</b></i>"), who is a founder of the Company as well as past CEO and Chairman, hereby announces how he plans to vote, and reasons therefor, at the upcoming annual meeting of the shareholders of the Company to be held on June 12, 2025 (the "<i><b>2025 Annual Meeting</b></i>").</p>
    <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>This is not a solicitation of authority to vote your proxy. Please DO NOT send your proxy card to Mr. Brown who is not able to vote your proxies, nor does this communication contemplate such an event. Mr. Brown urges shareholders to vote in person or by proxy at the 2025 Annual Meeting in accordance with the instructions provided by the Company in the Proxy Statement filed with the SEC on May 23, 2025 (the &#8220;<b>Proxy Statement</b>&#8221;) and the Proxy Card thereof (the &#8220;<b>Proxy Card</b>&#8221;).</i></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><i>The following information should not be construed as investment advice. Please read the important notices at the end of this document.</i></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Reasons for Mr. Brown's votes:</b></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">1.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>On June 3, 2024, the price of the Company's Common Stock was $2.97. On May 29, 2025, the price of the Company Common Stock was $1.02.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">2.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>In 2024 and 2025, the Company's management, with approval of the board of directors of the Company (the "<i><b>Board</b></i>"), took various actions (including the sale of profitable subsidiaries of the Company) that have resulted in a 25.1% reduction in revenue from 2023 ($262,747) to 2024 ($196,814) (figures in thousands).<a name="_ftnref2"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn2"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>2</sup></font></a></p>
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            <p style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftnref1"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>1</sup></font></a><font style="display: inline-block; width: 14pt;">&#160;</font>Robert G. Brown, Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership (Form 4/A) (May 12, 2025).</p>
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            <p style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftnref2"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>2</sup></font></a><font style="display: inline-block; width: 14pt;">&#160;</font>SPAR Grp., Inc. Annual Report 33 (Form 10-K) (May 16, 2025), <i>see</i> sections Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive (Loss) Income.</p>
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    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">3.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Board has approved cash compensation for the Board for the fiscal year of 2025 in an aggregate of almost $1,000,000.<a name="_ftnref3"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn3"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>3</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">4.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company failed to hold an annual shareholder meeting in 2024.<a name="_ftnref4"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn4"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>4</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">5.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company failed to file an annual report on Form 10-K in a timely manner for the fiscal year of 2024<a name="_ftnref5"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn5"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>5</sup></font></a> and was notified by NASDAQ that the Company was at risk of being delisted.<a name="_ftnref6"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn6"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>6</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">6.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Compensation Committee of the Board approved a $2,264,877 summary compensation package for the CEO for the year of 2024, an increase from $1,164,551 for the year of 2023, $612,613 for the year of 2022, and $304,086 for the year of 2021.<a name="_ftnref7"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn7"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>7</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">7.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company is in violation of various provisions of its bylaws, as amended through the date hereof (the "<i><b>Bylaws</b></i>").<a name="_ftnref8"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn8"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>8</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">8.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company refused to allow other candidates for the Board to be put into the proxy to give shareholders a choice among candidates for directors.<a name="_ftnref9"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn9"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>9</sup></font></a> The current directors voted to allow only those currently serving as directors to be included as candidates for election as directors in the Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting, thereby ensuring the shareholders do not have a choice of directors.<a name="_ftnref10"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn10"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>10</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">9.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>There is a lack of focus on increasing the price of the Company&#8217;s Common Stock to improve shareholder value.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">10.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company did not hold an annual shareholders meeting in 2024 and is holding the 2025 Annual Shareholders meeting on June 12, 2025.<a name="_ftnref11"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn11"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>11</sup></font></a>&#160;</p>
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            <p style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftnref8"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>8</sup></font></a><font style="display: inline-block; width: 14pt;">&#160;</font>Amended and Restated Bylaws, adopted effective as of January 18, 2022, attached as Exhibit 3.3 to the Company's Current Report (Form 8-K) (Jan. 25, 2022) (hereinafter referred to as the "<i><b>A&amp;R Bylaws</b></i>") (Mr. Brown alleges (x) that the Company's failure to have a Board of 7 members for the calendar year of 2024 was a violation of Section 3.01 of the A&amp;R Bylaws; (y) the terms of the written letter of resignations for directors was changed to terms other than as specified in Section 3.11 of the Bylaws; and (z) Section 3.09 provides that the shareholders may remove a director, but the Board requires each director to execute a resignation letter that permits other members of the Board to remove such director).</p>
            <p style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a style="text-indent: -9pt; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;" href="#_ftnref9"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>9</sup></font></a><font style="display: inline-block; width: 14pt;">&#160;</font><font style="text-indent: -9pt; font-size: 10pt;">SPAR Grp., Inc., Schedule 14A (Form DEF14A) (May 23, 2025).</font></p>
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    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">11.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Company has provided no guidance of expected Earnings Per Share (EPS) in 2025.</p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">12.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>In the fiscal year of 2024, the Company had a net loss attributable to SPAR Group, Inc., of $4,412,000 from a profit of $5,742,000 in 2023.<a name="_ftnref12"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn12"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>12</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">13.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Bylaws were changed in 2022 making them shareholder unfriendly and out of compliance with best practices as recommended by Glass-Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).<a name="_ftnref13"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn13"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>13</sup></font></a>&#160; These include: (1) requirements that 75% of the shareholders are required to call a meeting of the shareholders<a name="_ftnref14"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn14"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>14</sup></font></a> versus a best practice recommended by Glass-Lewis or ISS, (2) allowing the CEO to have 100% of the voting authority of the Board in certain situations, and (3) prohibiting directors who have prior associations with the Company, such as employees, advisors or former executives, from serving as Committee Chairman or the Chairman.<a name="_ftnref15"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn15"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>15</sup></font></a>&#160; Only directors without any prior association with the Company are permitted to serve in these roles.<a name="_ftnref16"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn16"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>16</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">14.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Governance Committee of the Board has ignored past shareholder advisory votes on maintaining the current auditors.<a name="_ftnref17"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn17"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>17</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">15.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>TThe Board has failed to publicly disclose various legal disputes with shareholders.<a name="_ftnref18"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn18"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>18</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">16.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The Board recommended that shareholders approve a sale of the Company transaction approved by the Board in August 2024<a name="_ftnref19"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn19"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>19</sup></font></a> (such transaction, the &#8220;<b><i>Highwire Merger</i></b>&#8221;), without validating if the prospective buyer could finance the transaction. The Highwire Merger agreement precluded the Company from taking any competing sale or merger actions until May 30, 2025.<a name="_ftnref18"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn18"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>20</sup></font></a>&#160; The Highwire Merger failed and by May 30, 2025,<a name="_ftnref18"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn18"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>21</sup></font></a> the price of the Company&#8217;s Common Stock has declined over 60% from just prior to the date of the announcement of the Highwire Merger.<a name="_ftnref18"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn18"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>22</sup></font></a>&#160; There has been no accountability for this failure of the Highwire Merger, and the financial advisory firm involved in this transaction has not been terminated and is still under contract with a guaranteed minimum payment for a future transaction.</p>
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    <p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">17.<font style="width: 5.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>The CEO of the Company also is the Chairman of Qantm Creative, a supplier to the Company.<a name="_ftnref23"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn23"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>23</sup></font></a>&#160; His wife, Jean Matacunas, is the CEO of Qantm Creative.<a name="_ftnref24"></a><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="#_ftn24"><font style="color: #000000;"><sup>24</sup></font></a></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Mr. Brown believes that the shareholders' interests would be better served and advanced by the following actions: </b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">1.<font style="width: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0pt; display: inline-block;">&#160;</font>A 6,000,000 share buyback.</p>
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    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Mr. Brown will vote at the 2025 Annual Meeting in person or by proxy as follows:</b></p>
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    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>IMPORTANT NOTICES: </b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>THIS IS NOT A PROXY SOLICITATION AND NO PROXY CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.&#160; PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR PROXY TO MR BROWN.&#160; TO VOTE YOUR PROXY, PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON YOUR PROXY CARD.</b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>THE FOREGOING INFORMATION MAY BE DISSEMINATED TO COMPANY SHAREHOLDERS VIA TELEPHONE, U.S. MAIL, E-MAIL, CERTAIN WEBSITES AND CERTAIN SOCIAL MEDIA VENUES, IN ADDITION TO PRESS RELEASE.&#160; THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS INVESTMENT ADVICE, OR AS A SOLICITATION OF AUTHORITY TO VOTE YOUR PROXY, OR A RECOMMENDATION OF HOW TO VOTE.</b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>THE COST OF DISSEMINATING THE FOREGOING INFORMATION TO SHAREHOLDERS IS BEING BORNE ENTIRELY BY MR. BROWN.</b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN HAS BEEN PREPARED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED RELIABLE BUT IS NOT GUARANTEED BY MR. BROWN AS TO ITS TIMELINESS OR ACCURACY, AND IS NOT A COMPLETE SUMMARY OR STATEMENT OF ALL AVAILABLE DATA. THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A RESEARCH REPORT. </b></p>
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    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">For questions regarding the case for voting in accordance with the recommendations set forth above, please contact Robert Brown via email at<b> </b><font style="color: #0563c1;"><u><b>rbrown6@msn.com</b></u></font><b>. </b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>Disclaimers</b></p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">The views expressed herein are those of Mr. Brown as of the date referenced and are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions. These views are not intended to be a forecast of future events or a guarantee of future results. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice.&#160; The information provided in this material should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any of the securities mentioned. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities have been or will be profitable. This document is rendered solely for informational purposes.</p>
    <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b>This filing is in connection with the planned vote by Mr. Brown (which he reserves the right to modify without notice) at the June 12, 2025, meeting of the Company's shareholders called by the Board. &#160;It is not a recommendation for how any shareholder&#8217;s shares should be voted (for, against or abstain) in connection with any of the directors or proposals set forth in the Company&#8217;s proxy statement. &#160;It is not an attempt to either appoint or remove any director.</b></p>
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