secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/ (CHD)
CIK:        0000313927
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-155476
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312523155476/0001193125-23-155476-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312523155476/d496780d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-155476

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