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| EX-99.1 - EX-99.1 - NEWELL BRANDS INC. | d664727dex991.htm |
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): November 28, 2018 (November 26, 2018)
NEWELL BRANDS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 1-9608 | 36-3514169 | ||
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification Number) |
221 River Street
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030
(Address of principal executive offices including zip code)
(201) 610-6600
(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):
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| Item 3.01 | Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing |
(d) On November 26, 2018, Newell Brands Inc. (the “Company”), acting pursuant to authorization from its Board of Directors, determined to voluntarily withdraw the principal listing of the Company’s common stock, par value $1 per share, (the “Common Stock”) from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and to transfer the listing to The Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”). The Company expects that listing and trading of the Common Stock on NYSE will end at market close on December 10, 2018, and that trading will begin on Nasdaq at market open on December 11, 2018.
The Common Stock has been approved for listing on Nasdaq, where it will continue to trade under the stock symbol “NWL”.
| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure |
The Company issued the press release attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 in connection with the transfer of the principal listing of the Common Stock to Nasdaq.
The information in Item 7.01 and Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit |
Exhibit Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release issued by Newell Brands Inc. on November 28, 2018 | |
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.
| NEWELL BRANDS INC. | ||||||||
| Dated: November 28, 2018 |
By: |
/s/ Bradford R. Turner | ||||||
| Bradford R. Turner Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary | ||||||||