---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001090727-25-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UPS"
cik: "0001090727"
company_name: "UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T02:24:34.781994+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# UPS appoints former Sherwin-Williams CEO John Morikis to board of directors

## Summary
- John Morikis, retired Chairman/President/CEO of Sherwin-Williams, appointed to UPS board effective June 2, 2025.
- Morikis also serves on boards of General Mills and Whirlpool; will join UPS Audit Committee.
- Board size increased to 13 members; appointment recommended by Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
- Compensation as non-employee director per standard practices described in 2025 proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001090727-25-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UPS
- cik: 0001090727
- company_name: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000109072725000054/0001090727-25-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000109072725000054/ups-20250602.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001090727-25-000054.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Morikis was appointed as Director at UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 2, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”), upon recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, increased the size of the Board to thirteen members and appointed John Morikis, age 61, to the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000109072725000054/0001090727-25-000054-index.htm

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