secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NEWELL BRANDS INC. (NWL)
CIK:        0000814453
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-143659
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Newell Brands promotes CFO Chris Peterson to President & CFO; annual meeting results
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- Chris Peterson, CFO since 2018, appointed President & CFO, effective immediately; continues to report to CEO Ravi Saligram.
- New compensation: base salary raised to $900,000 and $500,000 equity award (PRSUs, options, TRSUs).
- Shareholders elected all 10 director nominees; ratified PwC as auditor; approved 2022 Incentive Plan and advisory executive compensation.
- Stockholder proposal to amend special meeting right defeated with 67% against.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312522143659/0001193125-22-143659-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312522143659/d350738d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-143659

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