---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-303185"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWL"
cik: "0000814453"
company_name: "NEWELL BRANDS INC."
filed_at: "2025-12-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T15:58:44.783964+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Newell Brands announces global productivity plan: cut ~900 jobs, close 20 Yankee Candle stores

## Summary
- Workforce reduction of ~900 employees (10% of professional/clerical); U.S. separations largely by end of 2025.
- Closing ~20 Yankee Candle stores (~1% of brand sales) in U.S. and Canada, effective January 2026.
- Expected annualized pre-tax cost savings of $110M to $130M once fully implemented.
- Restructuring charges estimated at $75M to $90M, primarily cash severance, most by end of 2026.
- Q4 net/core sales guidance now expected toward lower end of prior range due to slower Latin America recovery.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-303185
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWL
- cik: 0000814453
- company_name: NEWELL BRANDS INC.
- filed_at: 2025-12-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312525303185/0001193125-25-303185-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312525303185/nwl-20251126.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-303185
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-303185.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-303185.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: cafa33cec7d6be3ae9a83080ce1e2a9cc68f2d4d
  claim: NEWELL BRANDS INC. announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $75 million to $90 million affecting global productivity plan across the Company (approximately 10% globally (approximately 900 employees)).
  evidence_excerpt: The Company estimates that it will incur approximately $75 million to $90 million in restructuring and restructuring-related charges in connection with the Plan
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312525303185/0001193125-25-303185-index.htm

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