SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 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) August 8, 2012

Multi-Color Corporation

(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN CHARTER)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code 513/381-1480

(FORMER NAME OR FORMER ADDRESS, IF CHANGED SINCE LAST REPORT)

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 Instructions A.2. below):

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Multi-Color Corporation (“Multi-Color” or the “Company”) announced on August 8, 2012 that Lorrence T. Kellar has resigned from his position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Multi-Color Corporation. Mr. Kellar will remain as a director on the Company’s Board of Directors.

The Company’s Board of Directors has named Robert R. Buck as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors effective August 9, 2012.

Effective August 9, 2012, Mr. Kellar has been appointed Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors. Contemporaneously with this appointment, Mr. Buck will no longer serve as the Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee. Mr. Buck remains a member of the Audit and Finance Committee.

At the 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the shareholders of the Company approved the Multi-Color Corporation 2012 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”). The 2012 Plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors in May 2012 subject to shareholder approval.

Under the 2012 Plan, officers and key employees of the Company and the Company’s non-employee directors will be eligible to receive awards. The 2012 Plan is an “omnibus” stock plan that provides for a variety of equity award vehicles to maintain flexibility. The 2012 Plan will permit the grant of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted share awards, restricted share units and unrestricted share awards.

A maximum of 500,000 shares will be available for grants of all equity awards under the 2012 Plan, with a maximum of 100,000 shares being available for grant with respect to full-value awards and a maximum of 300,000 shares being available for grant with respect to options.

The foregoing summary of the 2012 Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 2012 Plan attached as Annex A to the Company’s proxy statement for its 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

Multi-Color convened its annual meeting of shareholders on August 8, 2012. The voting results on the proposals considered at the meeting are:

Proposal No. 1: Election of Directors

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Proposal No. 2: Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2013

Proposal No. 3: Advisory (Non-Binding) Approval of Executive Compensation

Proposal No. 4: Approval of the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan

Proposal No. 5: Amendment of the Code of Regulations

Item 8.01 Other Events

The Company announced on August 8, 2012 that its Board of Directors declared the Company’s quarterly cash dividend for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013. The dividend is a payment of five cents per common share, payable September 1, 2012, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 24, 2012.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

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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 hereunto duly authorized.

MULTI-COLOR CORPORATION

Date: August 13, 2012

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