---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-155476"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHD"
cik: "0000313927"
company_name: "CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T13:31:52.624844+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Church & Dwight EVP forfeits $200K in stock options for failing to preserve evidence

## Summary
- Barry Bruno, EVP & CMO, forfeited vested in-the-money stock options worth $200,000 as a penalty.
- He failed to comply with document preservation instructions for a legal matter, deleting text messages.
- Company investigation retrieved a significant number of the deleted communications.
- Board approved the forfeiture on May 23, 2023; entered into a waiver agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-155476
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHD
- cik: 0000313927
- company_name: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- 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/313927/000119312523155476/0001193125-23-155476-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312523155476/d496780d8k.htm

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