---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-322389"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRGO"
cik: "0001585364"
company_name: "PERRIGO Co plc"
filed_at: "2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T11:30:13.685822+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Perrigo Chairman Rolf Classon to retire at 2022 AGM; Orlando Ashford to succeed

## Summary
- Chairman Rolf Classon, 76, will not stand for re-election at May 2022 AGM and will retire.
- Classon's retirement is not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Board plans to elect Orlando Ashford as Chairman, effective after the 2022 AGM.
- Ashford has been an independent director since December 2020.
- Classon joined the board in 2017 and has served as Chairman since 2018.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-322389
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRGO
- cik: 0001585364
- company_name: PERRIGO Co plc
- filed_at: 2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312521322389/0001193125-21-322389-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312521322389/d249230d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322389
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322389.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322389.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Orlando Ashford was named as Chairman of the Board at PERRIGO Co plc.
  - Action: named
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: The Board plans to name Orlando Ashford, an independent director since December 2020, as Chairman of the Board, effective immediately following the Company’s annual general meeting of shareholders in May 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312521322389/0001193125-21-322389-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rolf A. Classon departed as Chairman of the Board at PERRIGO Co plc.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: Rolf A. Classon, Chairman of the Board of Perrigo Company plc, advised the Board that he will not stand for re-election to our Board of Directors at the Company’s annual general meeting of shareholders in 2022 and intends to retire from our Board at that time.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312521322389/0001193125-21-322389-index.htm

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