---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-030278"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRGO"
cik: "0001585364"
company_name: "PERRIGO Co plc"
filed_at: "2023-02-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T20:18:55.288432+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Perrigo director Theodore Samuels to retire at 2023 annual meeting, not seeking re-election

## Summary
- Theodore R. Samuels, independent director since 2017, will not stand for re-election at 2023 AGM.
- He serves on Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees; departure not due to any disagreement.
- Samuels, 68, will continue as director until the AGM; no replacement announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-030278
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRGO
- cik: 0001585364
- company_name: PERRIGO Co plc
- filed_at: 2023-02-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312523030278/0001193125-23-030278-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312523030278/d433878d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-030278
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-030278.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-030278.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Theodore R. Samuels departed as Director at PERRIGO Co plc.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 7, 2023, Theodore R. Samuels, an independent member of the Perrigo Company plc Board of Directors, advised Perrigo’s Nominating & Governance Committee that he will not stand for re-election to our Board of Directors at the Company’s annual general meeting of shareholders in 2023 and intends to retire from our Board at that time.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585364/000119312523030278/0001193125-23-030278-index.htm

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