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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): February 10, 2014

 

 

REYNOLDS AMERICAN INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

North Carolina   1-32258   20-0546644

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

401 North Main Street

Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

336-741-2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(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 Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

On January 9, 2014, Reynolds American Inc. (“RAI”) filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to report the entry (effective January 8, 2014) by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of RAI, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RAI, into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Standard Supplier Agreement, dated August 1, 2003, as amended, with Eastman Chemical Company. This Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed for the purpose of filing the Amendment with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

(d) Exhibits

 

Number

  

Exhibit

10.1 *    Amendment, effective January 8, 2014, to the Standard Supplier Agreement, dated August 1, 2003, as amended, by and among R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. and Eastman Chemical Company

 

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an application for confidential treatment pursuant to the Exchange Act.


SIGNATURE

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.

 

REYNOLDS AMERICAN INC.
By:  

/s/ McDara P. Folan, III

Name:   McDara P. Folan, III
Title:   Senior Vice President, Deputy General
  Counsel and Secretary

Date: February 10, 2014


INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Number

  

Exhibit

10.1 *    Amendment, effective January 8, 2014, to the Standard Supplier Agreement, dated August 1, 2003, as amended, by and among R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. and Eastman Chemical Company

 

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an application for confidential treatment pursuant to the Exchange Act.