---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000945114-21-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GIC"
cik: "0000945114"
company_name: "GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL Co"
filed_at: "2021-12-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T03:22:08.502178+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Industrial declares $1.00 special dividend payable Dec 27, 2021

## Summary
- Special cash dividend of $1.00 per share; record date Dec 17, 2021, payable Dec 27, 2021.
- Chairman Richard Leeds cites strong cash generation and balance sheet as basis for dividend.
- Company has paid over $580M in dividends to shareholders since 2017.
- Dividend expected to be treated as ordinary dividend for tax purposes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000945114-21-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GIC
- cik: 0000945114
- company_name: GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL Co
- filed_at: 2021-12-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945114/000094511421000071/0000945114-21-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945114/000094511421000071/gic-20211207.htm

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