---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-212661"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWK"
cik: "0000093556"
company_name: "STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC."
filed_at: "2022-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T04:44:40.360282+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stanley Black & Decker elects Robert Manning to board; former MFS CEO brings financial expertise

## Summary
- Robert Manning, former Chairman & CEO of MFS Investment Management, elected to board effective Aug 3, 2022.
- Manning will serve on Corporate Governance and Compensation & Talent Development Committees.
- He brings over 30 years of financial services experience and expertise in capital allocation and ESG strategies.
- This is the fifth new independent director added in the last three years as part of board succession.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-212661
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWK
- cik: 0000093556
- company_name: STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312522212661/0001193125-22-212661-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312522212661/d308154d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-212661
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-212661.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-212661.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert Manning was elected as Director at STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 3, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Robert Manning as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312522212661/0001193125-22-212661-index.htm

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