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): August 1, 2014

Commission file number 1-10948

OFFICE DEPOT, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(561) 438-4800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Former name or former address, if changed since last report: N/A

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:

Effective August 1, 2014 (the “Effective Date”), the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Office Depot, Inc. (the “Company”) approved a new Executive Change in Control Severance Plan (the “Severance Plan”) pursuant to which the Company will provide certain severance pay and other benefits to certain eligible employees of the Company (each, an “Executive” and collectively, the “Executives”) in the event of such Executive’s Qualifying Termination (as defined below) in connection with a Change in Control (as defined below). As part of the harmonization of compensation arrangements following the Company’s merger with OfficeMax Incorporated (“OfficeMax”) on November 5, 2013 (the “Merger”), the Company wished to replace the legacy change in control severance agreements with a single plan going forward. The following summary of the Severance Plan does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Severance Plan filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

Amongst the Executives are the following named executive officers of the Company, who are presently the only named executive officers participating, or eligible to participate, in the Severance Plan: Michael Allison, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer; Elisa Garcia, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary; and Stephen Hare, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (each, a “Current NEO” and collectively, the “Current NEOs”). The Compensation Committee may approve additional participants in the Severance Plan subsequent to the Effective Date.

The severance pay and other benefits payable to an Executive after a Change in Control under the Severance Plan will be paid solely in lieu of, and not in addition to, any severance benefits payable under any Executive’s existing offer letter, severance arrangement or other program or agreement on account of the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company.

The Company is party to individual agreements (each, an “Individual Agreement” and collectively, the “Individual Agreements”) with certain of the Executives, including Ms. Garcia and Mr. Allison, under which severance protection periods were triggered upon the Merger. Such Executive’s entitlement to severance benefits will be determined solely under such Executive’s Individual Agreement with respect to a termination of employment on or prior to the expiration in November 2015 of the Individual Agreement (the “Expiration Date”). Following the Expiration Date, such Executive’s entitlement to severance benefits in connection with a Change in Control after the Effective Date will be determined solely under the Severance Plan, provided that the Executive agrees to participate in the Severance Plan. In connection with the approval of the Severance Plan, the Company distributed notices, which include a release (each, a “Non-Renewal Notice”) to Executives with Individual Agreements indicating that the Company will not be renewing any Individual Agreement beyond the Expiration Date.

Ms. Garcia and Mr. Allison have Individual Agreements with an Expiration Date of November 5, 2015 with the Company and may only participate in the Severance Plan upon the Expiration Date of such agreements provided that they execute a Non-Renewal Notice. Mr. Hare’s letter agreement with the Company, dated December 2, 2013 (the “Hare Employment Agreement”), provided that following Mr. Hare’s start date at the Company he would be provided with a change in control agreement. Accordingly, Mr. Hare will be participating in the Severance Plan as of the Effective Date. A description of Ms. Garcia’s and Mr. Allison’s Individual Agreements with the Company and the Hare Employment Agreement can be found in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 2014. A copy of the Form of Non-Renewal Notice sent by the Company to Ms. Garcia and Mr. Allison is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

Under the Severance Plan, the following events constitute a “Change in Control”:

Pursuant to the Severance Plan, an Executive will be eligible to receive certain severance pay and other benefits upon a separation from service that is initiated by (i) the Company other than for Cause (as defined in the Severance Plan); or (ii) the Executive for Good Reason (as defined in the Severance Plan), in either case during the time period commencing on the effective date of a Change in Control (the “Change in Control Trigger Date”) and until the earlier of (x) the two-year anniversary of the Change in Control Trigger Date, or (y) the date of the Executive’s separation from service by reason of Disability (as defined in the Severance Plan) or death (collectively, a “Qualifying Termination”); provided, that if an Executive’s separation from service is initiated by (a) the Company without Cause during the six-month period ending on the Change in Control Trigger Date (the “Six-Month Period”) at the request of a third party engaging in a transaction or series of transactions that would result in a Change in Control and in contemplation of a Change in Control, or (b) the Executive for Good Reason during the Six-Month Period, then the Executive’s separation from service shall be deemed to have occurred immediately following the Change in Control such that it shall be deemed a Qualifying Termination.

Under the Severance Plan, the Current NEOs will be eligible to receive severance pay and other benefits as follows (collectively, the “NEO Severance Benefits”):

The receipt of Severance Benefits by a Current NEO is subject to the execution by the Current NEO of a release (the “Release”), which contains customary restrictive covenants regarding confidentiality, non-competition (twenty-four (24) months), non-solicitation (twelve (12) months), non-disparagement and cooperation. The Release must be delivered to the Company within the time period specified in the Severance Plan.

Any payment or benefit received or to be received by a Current NEO (whether payable under the terms of this Severance Plan or any other plan or arrangement with the Company or an affiliate of the Company) that would constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Code Section 280G will be reduced to the extent necessary so that no portion will be subject to any excise tax but only if, by reason of such reduction, the net after-tax benefit received by such Current NEO exceeds the net after-tax benefit that would be received by such Current NEO if no reduction was made.

(d) Exhibits.

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 thereunto duly authorized.

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