---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-071497"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FBIN"
cik: "0001519751"
company_name: "Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T08:31:59.443440+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fortune Brands elects McCormick CEO Brendan Foley to Board, effective July 1

## Summary
- Brendan Foley elected as Class III director, effective July 1, 2025, term expiring at 2026 annual meeting.
- Foley is Chairman, President and CEO of McCormick & Company; brings global consumer brand and operations experience.
- Board increased from nine to ten directors; Foley determined independent under NYSE rules.
- No arrangements, family relationships, or transactions requiring disclosure under Item 404(a).
- Foley will receive standard non-employee director compensation per 2025 proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-071497
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FBIN
- cik: 0001519751
- company_name: Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519751/000095017025071497/0000950170-25-071497-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519751/000095017025071497/fbin-20250513.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-071497.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brendan Foley was elected as Class III director at Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class III director
  source text: elected Brendan Foley as a Class III member of the Board, each effective July 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519751/000095017025071497/0000950170-25-071497-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.