**UNITED STATES        SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT        TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE        SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**         

**Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): April 2, 2009**         

**FORTUNE INDUSTRIES, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

**INDIANA**(State of incorporation or organization)

**0-19049**(Commission file number)

**20****-****2803889**(I.R.S. Employer        Identification No.)

**6402****CORPORATE DRIVE        INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46278**(Address of principal executive offices)

**(317) 532-1374        (Registrant’s Telephone Number,        Including Area Code)**         

     Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (*see*General Instruction A.2. below):                       oWritten communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)              oSoliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)              oPre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))              oPre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

         

 

**Item 5.02. Departure****of Directors or Certain Officers; Election o****f Directors;****Appointment o****f Certain Offic****ers; Compensatory Arrangements o****f Certain Officers.**

Effective April 2, 2009, the Board of Directors of Fortune Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Randy Butler, 49, to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mr. Butler joined Century II, a subsidiary of the Company on May 1, 2006 as the Controller, and assumed responsibility for all the financial functions of PSM, Inc. another subsidiary of the Company in May 2008. Prior to Century II, Mr. Butler was the Controller for PFIC Corporation, a broker-dealer for Union Planters Bank, where he was responsible for all the accounting and financial        operations for the Financial Services Division of Union Planters Bank.

Mr. Butler graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee in 1982 with a B.S. in Accounting.                 Although no definitive employment contract has been finalized with Mr. Butler at this time, he will receive an annual salary of $130,000, and will be eligible for a performance-based bonus program which may include shares of the Company’s stock and cash bonuses. The Company will file an Amended Form-8-K upon finalizing such agreement.                 Mr. Butler is replacing Garth Allred as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. On April 2, 2009, the Company accepted Mr. Allred’s resignation as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, and all positions he holds with the Company’s subsidiaries and affiliated entities. Mr. Allred’s resignation was effective on April 2, 2009.

**Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.         **

None.

Signatures.         

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

                                              FORTUNE INDUSTRIES, INC.

        Date: April 8, 2009                                                                          By: /s/ John F.        Fisbeck                                                                                                                John Fisbeck                                                                                                                      Chief Executive Officer