Newell Brands Inc 10-Q for FY2025 Q2
Newell Brands Inc. (NWL)
10-Q
2025-08-01
For: 2025-06-30
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About this 10-Q
Newell Brands Inc filed this 10-Q on August 1, 2025, covering the quarter ended June 30, 2025 (FY2025 Q2).
Headline figures
Quarter ended June 30, 2025, as reported in this filing, compared with the same period a year earlier where the filing states it.
- Revenue
- $1.94B
- down 4.8% from $2.03B a year earlier
- Net income
- $46M
- up 2.2% from net income of $45M a year earlier
- Diluted EPS
- $0.11
- unchanged from $0.11 a year earlier
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2025
Commission File Number 1-9608
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (770 ) 418-7000
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
Number of shares of common stock outstanding (net of treasury shares) as of July 28, 2025: 419.1 million.
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |||||
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
NEWELL BRANDS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (Unaudited)
(Amounts in millions, except per share amounts)
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of products sold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring costs, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Impairment of goodwill, intangibles and other assets | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-operating expenses: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax provision (benefit) | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings per share: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS): | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustments | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pension and postretirement costs | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative financial instruments | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive loss, net of tax | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total comprehensive income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).
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NEWELL BRANDS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Unaudited)
(Amounts in millions, except par values)
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Assets: | |||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Accounts receivable, net | |||||||||||
| Inventories | |||||||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | |||||||||||
| Total current assets | |||||||||||
| Property, plant and equipment, net | |||||||||||
| Operating lease assets | |||||||||||
| Goodwill | |||||||||||
| Other intangible assets, net | |||||||||||
| Deferred income taxes | |||||||||||
| Other assets | |||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Liabilities: | |||||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Other accrued liabilities | |||||||||||
| Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt | |||||||||||
| Total current liabilities | |||||||||||
| Long-term debt | |||||||||||
| Deferred income taxes | |||||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | |||||||||||
| Other noncurrent liabilities | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities | |||||||||||
Commitments and contingencies (Footnote 14) | |||||||||||
| Stockholders’ equity: | |||||||||||
Preferred stock ( | |||||||||||
Common stock ( | |||||||||||
Treasury stock, at cost ( | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | |||||||||||
| Retained deficit | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | $ | |||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).
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NEWELL BRANDS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)
(Amounts in millions)
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | |||||||||||
| Net income | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities: | |||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | |||||||||||
| Deferred income taxes | |||||||||||
| Stock based compensation expense | |||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | |||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Changes in operating accounts: | |||||||||||
| Accounts receivable | ( | ||||||||||
| Inventories | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Accounts payable | ( | ||||||||||
| Accrued liabilities and other, net | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | ( | ||||||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | |||||||||||
| Capital expenditures | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Proceeds from settlement of swaps | |||||||||||
| Other investing activities, net | |||||||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from (payments on) short-term debt, net | ( | ||||||||||
| Proceeds from short-term debt with original maturities greater than 90 days | |||||||||||
| Payments on short-term debt with original maturities greater than 90 days | ( | ||||||||||
| Payments on current portion of long-term debt | ( | ||||||||||
| Net proceeds from issuance of long-term debt | |||||||||||
| Debt extinguishment and modification costs | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Cash dividends | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Equity compensation activity and other, net | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | |||||||||||
| Exchange rate effect on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | ( | ||||||||||
| Increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | |||||||||||
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period | |||||||||||
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Supplemental disclosures: | |||||||||||
Restricted cash at beginning of period (Footnote 1) | $ | $ | |||||||||
Restricted cash at end of period (Footnote 1) | |||||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).
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NEWELL BRANDS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Unaudited)
(Amounts in millions, except per share amounts)
| Common Stock | Treasury Stock | Additional Paid-In Capital | Retained Earnings (Deficit) | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Total Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) | — | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends declared on common stock - $ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity compensation, net of tax | — | ( | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) | — | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends declared on common stock - $ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity compensation, net of tax | ( | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Stock | Treasury Stock | Additional Paid-In Capital | Retained Earnings (Deficit) | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Total Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2024 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) | — | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends declared on common stock - $ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity compensation, net of tax | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2024 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2023 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) | — | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends declared on common stock - $ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity compensation, net of tax | ( | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2024 | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).
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NEWELL BRANDS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)
Footnote 1 — Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
Newell Brands Inc. is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. Newell Brands is focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. The Company sells its products in over 150 countries around the world and has operations on the ground in over 40 of these countries, excluding third-party distributors. The Company has three operating segments: Home and Commercial Solutions, Learning and Development and Outdoor and Recreation.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Newell Brands Inc. (collectively with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States (“U.S.”) Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments (including normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair statement of the financial position and the results of operations of the Company. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements, and the footnotes thereto, included in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2024 has been derived from the audited financial statements as of that date, but it does not include all the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for a complete financial statement. Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.
Use of Estimates and Risks
Management’s application of U.S. GAAP in preparing the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements requires the pervasive use of estimates and assumptions. The Company continues to be impacted by inflationary pressures, soft global demand, major retailers’ focus on tight control over their inventory levels, fluctuating interest rates and indirect macroeconomic impacts from geopolitical conflicts as well as new tariffs imposed by the current U.S. presidential administration and other countries’ retaliatory actions in response to such tariffs. The Company continues to deploy a mitigation strategy designed to offset the impact of this tariff exposure through a number of actions, including pricing, productivity and in some cases relocation of manufacturing. These collective macroeconomic trends, the duration or severity of which are highly uncertain, are still changing the retail and consumer landscape and continue to negatively impact the Company’s operating results, cash flows and financial condition and are to some degree expected to persist into the remainder of the year. As consumers continue to face widespread increases in prices and fluctuating interest rates, their discretionary spending and purchase patterns may continue to be unfavorably impacted. The high level of uncertainty of these factors has resulted in estimates and assumptions that have the potential for more variability and are more subjective. In addition, some of the other inherent estimates and assumptions used in the Company’s forecasted results of operations and cash flows that form the basis of the determination of the fair value of the reporting units for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment testing are outside the control of management, including interest rates, cost of capital, tax rates, tariffs, industry growth, credit ratings, foreign exchange rates and labor inflation. Although management has made its best estimates and assumptions based upon current information, actual results could materially differ given the uncertainty of these factors and may require future changes to such estimates and assumptions, including reserves, which may result in future expense or impairment charges.
Seasonal Variations
Sales of the Company’s products tend to be seasonal, with sales, operating income and operating cash flow in the first quarter generally lower than any other quarter during the year, driven principally by reduced volume and the mix of products sold in the first quarter. The seasonality of the Company’s sales volume combined with the accounting for fixed costs, such as depreciation, amortization, rent, personnel costs and interest expense, impacts the Company’s results on a quarterly basis. Also, the Company typically tends to generate the majority of its operating cash flow in the third and fourth quarters of the year due to seasonal variations in operating results, the timing of annual performance-based compensation payments, customer program payments, working capital requirements and credit terms provided to customers. In addition, uncertainty still remains over the volatility and direction of future consumer and customer demand patterns, as well as inflationary pressures inclusive of the impact of tariffs.
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Changes to U.S. GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) in the form of accounting standards updates (“ASUs”) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”). The Company considers the applicability and impact of recently issued and proposed ASUs.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.” The standard requires all entities subject to income taxes to disclose disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid. The new requirement is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The guidance will be applied on a prospective basis with the option to apply the standard retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of ASU 2023-09 to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, “Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures.” This ASU requires that each interim and annual reporting period, an entity disclose more information about the components of certain expense captions that is currently disclosed in the financial statements. This update is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026. Early adoption is permitted. Management is currently evaluating the effects this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.
Sales of Accounts Receivable
The Company maintains a factoring agreement with a financial institution to sell certain customer receivables (the “Customer Receivables Purchase Agreement”) up to $700 million of eligible accounts receivable. During the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company factored receivables pursuant to the Customer Receivables Purchase Agreement. The following table sets forth proceeds received and amount collected from customers and remitted to the financial institution (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds received | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Collected from customers and remitted to financial institution | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Outstanding receivables sold under the Customer Receivables Purchase Agreement at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were approximately $440 million and $270 million, respectively.
In addition, the Company, through a wholly-owned special purpose entity (“SPE”), has a three-year factoring agreement with a financial institution to sell certain customer receivables up to $225 million, between February and April of each year, and up to $275 million at all other times, of eligible accounts receivable without recourse on a revolving basis (the “Receivables Facility”). Under the Receivables Facility, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries continuously sell their accounts receivables, originated in the U.S., to the SPE, which then sells the receivables to the financial institution. The SPE is a variable interest entity for which the Company is considered to be the primary beneficiary. The SPE’s sole business consists of the purchase of receivables from certain subsidiaries of the Company and the subsequent transfer of such receivables to the financial institution. Although the SPE is included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements, it is a separate legal entity with separate creditors. The assets of the SPE are not available to pay creditors of the Company or its subsidiaries. The fair value of these servicing arrangements as well as the fees earned was immaterial. During the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company factored receivables pursuant to the Receivables Facility. The following table sets forth proceeds received and amount collected from customers and remitted to the financial institution (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds received | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Collected from customers and remitted to financial institution | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Outstanding receivables sold under the Receivables Facility at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were approximately $145
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Supplier Finance Program Obligations
The Company has an arrangement with a third-party vendor which provides a service for the Company’s suppliers, at their sole discretion, to sell their receivables due from the Company to various financial institutions, who at their sole discretion, contract with the third-party vendor to participate in the supplier finance program (the “SFP”).
The Company and its suppliers agree on contractual terms for the goods and services procured, including prices, quantities and payment terms, regardless of whether the supplier elects to participate in the SFP. The suppliers sell goods or services, as applicable, to the Company and issue the associated invoices to the Company based on the agreed-upon contractual terms. Suppliers that participate in the SFP, at their sole discretion, determine which invoices, if any, they want to sell to the third-party vendor. The suppliers’ voluntary inclusion of invoices in the SFP does not change the Company’s existing contractual terms with its suppliers. The Company does not provide any guarantees or collateral under the SFP, nor does it have any economic interest in a supplier’s decision to participate in the SFP. Amounts due to suppliers participating in the SFP are included in accounts payable in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and amounts paid to suppliers participating in the SFP are classified as operating cash flows in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Supplier payment terms for those participating in the SFP averaged approximately 124 days.
The following table sets forth the outstanding payment obligations due to the third-party vendor and activities related to the suppliers who participated in the SFP:
Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | |||||||
| Invoices participating in the SFP | ||||||||
| Invoices paid to the third-party vendor | ( | |||||||
Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | |||||||
Fair Value Measurements
The Company’s financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, investment securities, accounts payable, derivative instruments and short and long-term debt. The carrying values for current financial assets and liabilities, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and short-term debt approximate fair value due to the short maturity of such instruments. For publicly traded investment securities, including mutual funds, fair value is determined on the basis of quoted market prices and, accordingly, such investments are classified as Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. The fair value of such investments was not material at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The fair values of the Company’s long-term debt and derivative instruments are disclosed in Footnote 8 and Footnote 9, respectively. The Company’s nonfinancial assets, which are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, include property, plant and equipment, goodwill, intangible assets and certain other assets. In addition, the Company adjusts its pension asset values to fair value on an annual basis.
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Footnote 2 — Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The following table displays the changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (“AOCL”) by component, net of tax, for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (in millions):
| Cumulative Translation Adjustment | Pension and Postretirement Costs | Derivative Financial Instruments | AOCL | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications (1) | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
Amounts reclassified to earnings (2) | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net current period other comprehensive income (loss) | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||
(1)Includes income tax provision (benefit) allocated to AOCL as follows $(71 ) million, $(3 ) million, $(5 ) million and $(79 ) million, respectively.
(2)Income tax provision (benefit) for both the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were not material. Pension and postretirement costs presented are primarily classified in other expense, net within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Refer to Footnote 9 for the statements of operations classifications of the Company’s various types of derivative financial instruments.
Reclassifications from AOCL to the results of operations on a before and after-tax basis for the for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were not material for any of the periods presented.
Footnote 3 — Restructuring
To better align its resources with its strategy and operating model and to reduce the cost structure of its global operations, the Company commits to restructuring plans as necessary and as follows:
Organizational Realignment Plan
In January 2024, the Company announced a plan to strengthen its front-end commercial capabilities, such as consumer understanding and brand communication, in support of the “where to play” and “how to win” strategy choices the Company unveiled in June of 2023 (the “Realignment Plan”). In addition to improving accountability, the Realignment Plan was designed to unlock operational efficiencies and cost savings, reduce complexity and free up funds for reinvestment. As part of the Realignment Plan, the Company has made several operating model changes, which entailed: standing up a cross-functional brand management organization, realigning business unit finance to fully support the new global brand management model, further simplifying and standardizing regional go-to-market organizations, and centralizing domestic retail sales teams, the digital technology team, business-aligned accounting personnel, the Manufacturing Quality team, and the Human Resources functions into the appropriate center-led teams to drive standardization, efficiency and scale with a One Newell approach. The Company has also further optimized the Company’s real estate footprint and pursued other cost reduction initiatives. These actions were primarily implemented by the end of 2024. The remaining actions, subject to applicable local law and consultation requirements, are expected to be implemented by the end of fiscal year 2025. Restructuring and restructuring-related charges associated with these actions are estimated to be in the range of $75 million to $90 million, mainly for severance payments and other termination benefits, office space reduction and consolidation and other expenses.
In connection with the Realignment Plan, the Company recorded restructuring and restructuring-related costs for the periods indicated as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | Incurred since inception | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring costs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring-related costs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Restructuring and Restructuring-Related Costs
The Company also incurs other restructuring and restructuring-related costs in connection with various discrete initiatives as well as previously announced but substantially completed restructuring activities. Restructuring-related costs are recorded in cost of
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products sold, selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”) and impairment of other assets in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations based on the nature of the underlying charges incurred.
The Company recorded restructuring costs, net and restructuring-related costs in connection with various discrete initiatives as well as previously announced but substantially completed restructuring activities for the periods indicated as follows:
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring costs | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring-related costs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Restructuring costs, net incurred by reportable business segments for all restructuring activities for the periods indicated are as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accrued restructuring costs related to all restructuring activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 were as follows (in millions):
| Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | |||||||
| Restructuring costs, net | ||||||||
| Payments | ( | |||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | |||||||
Footnote 4 — Inventories
Inventories are comprised of the following (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Raw materials and supplies | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Work-in-process | |||||||||||
| Finished products | |||||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
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Footnote 5 — Property, Plant and Equipment, Net
Property, plant and equipment, net, is comprised of the following (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Land | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Buildings and improvements | |||||||||||
| Machinery and equipment | |||||||||||
| Less: Accumulated depreciation | ( | ( | |||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
Footnote 6 — Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, Net
Goodwill activity for the six months ended June 30, 2025 is as follows (in millions):
June 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segments | Net Book Value at December 31, 2024 | Foreign Exchange | Net Book Value | Gross Carrying Amount | Accumulated Impairment Charges | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other intangible assets, net, are comprised of the following (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gross Carrying Amount | Accumulated Amortization | Net Book Value | Gross Carrying Amount | Accumulated Amortization | Net Book Value | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tradenames — indefinite life | $ | $ | — | $ | $ | $ | — | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tradenames — other | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capitalized software | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer relationships and distributor channels | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization expense for intangible assets was $32 million and $35 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively and $64 million and $69 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Footnote 7 — Other Accrued Liabilities
Other accrued liabilities are comprised of the following (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Customer accruals | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Accrued compensation | |||||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | |||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
Footnote 8 — Debt
Debt is comprised of the following at the dates indicated (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
Revolving credit facility (1) | |||||||||||
| Other debt | |||||||||||
Total debt | |||||||||||
| Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Long-term debt | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1)Included in short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
Senior Notes
In May 2025, in an offering exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and all state securities laws, the Company completed the offering and sale of $1.25 billion of 8.500 % senior notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”) and received proceeds of approximately $1.23 billion, net of fees and expenses paid. The 2028 Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of May 22, 2025, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (the “Indenture”). The Indenture provides, among other things that the 2028 Notes are the senior unsecured obligations of the Company and includes covenants that limit the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to incur or guarantee additional debt, create or permit certain liens, redeem or repurchase certain debt, consummate certain assets sales, make certain loans and investments, consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of the Company and its subsidiaries assets, enter into certain transactions with affiliates and pay distributions on, or redeem or repurchase the Company’s capital stock, subject in each case to certain qualifications and exceptions, including the termination of certain of these covenants upon the 2028 Notes receiving investment grade credit ratings. The Company used the proceeds of the offering to fully redeem its outstanding 4.200 % senior notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”).
In June 2025, the Company fully redeemed its 2026 Notes at a redemption price equal to 100.757 % of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the notes, plus accrued unpaid interest to the redemption date. The total consideration was approximately $1.25 billion. As a result of the redemption, the Company recorded a loss on debt extinguishment of $13 million.
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Revolving Credit Facility
The Company maintains a $1.00 billion senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Revolver”) maturing in August 2027. Under the Credit Revolver, the Company may borrow funds on a variety of interest terms. The Credit Revolver agreement (i) requires the Company to satisfy financial covenants testing the Company’s Collateral Coverage Ratio and Total Net Leverage Ratio (each further defined in the Credit Revolver, as amended), (ii) requires the Company and certain of its domestic and foreign subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”) to guaranty Company obligations under the Credit Revolver and (iii) requires the Company and other Guarantors to grant a lien and security interest in certain assets consisting of eligible accounts receivables, eligible inventory, eligible equipment and eligible intellectual property, and all products and proceeds of the foregoing, subject to certain limitations. Other than outstanding borrowings under the Credit Revolver, availability under the Credit Revolver is subject to change in accordance with the terms of the agreement, including in response to changes in the Company’s pledged collateral value or outstanding letters of credit under the Credit Revolver. At June 30, 2025, there was $989 million of availability under the Credit Revolver, based on the value of the pledged collateral and prior to giving effect to outstanding borrowings and letters of credit.
The Credit Revolver provides for the issuance of up to $150 million of letters of credit, so long as there is sufficient availability for borrowing under the Credit Revolver. At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $35 million of outstanding standby letters of credit issued against the Credit Revolver and $495 million of outstanding borrowings under the Credit Revolver resulting in a net availability of approximately $459 million.
Other
During the second quarter of 2025, Moody’s Corporation (“Moody’s”) and S&P Global Inc. (“S&P”) downgraded the Company’s senior unsecured debt rating to “B1” and “B+”, respectively. As a result, certain of the Company’s outstanding senior notes aggregating to approximately $2.31 billion at that time (the “Coupon-Step Notes”) were subject to an interest rate adjustment of 25 50 basis points in the aggregate, with such adjustments to take effect in the fourth quarter of this year. The redemption of the 2026 Notes in June 2025 decreased the aggregate amount of the Coupon-Step Notes to $1.08 billion. The change to the interest rate due to the downgrades will increase the Company’s interest expense by approximately $5 million on an annualized basis (approximately $1 million in 2025).
The indentures governing the Company’s senior notes contain usual and customary nonfinancial covenants, with the 2028 Notes containing additional covenants, such as described above, and the 6.375 % notes due 2027 and the 6.625 % notes due 2032 likewise containing additional covenants consistent with the 2028 Notes, such as described in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on February 14, 2025. The Company’s borrowing arrangements other than the senior notes contain usual and customary nonfinancial covenants and certain financial covenants, including minimum collateral coverage and net leverage ratios.
Weighted average interest rates are as follows:
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Short-term debt | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||
The fair value of the Company’s senior notes are based upon prices of similar instruments in the marketplace and are as follows (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fair Value | Book Value | Fair Value | Book Value | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
The carrying amounts of all other debt approximates fair value.
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Footnote 9 —Derivatives
From time to time, the Company enters into derivative transactions to hedge its exposures to interest rate, foreign currency rate and commodity price fluctuations. The Company does not enter into derivative transactions for trading purposes. The Company is not a party to any derivative agreements that require collateral to be posted prior to settlement.
Interest Rate Contracts
At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $1.00 billion notional amount of interest rate swaps due September 2027 and September 2029 that exchange a fixed rate of interest for a variable rate of interest plus a weighted average spread. These floating rate swaps are designated as fair value hedges against the principal of the 6.375 % senior notes due 2027 and the 6.625 % senior notes due 2029 for the remaining life of the notes. The effective portion of the fair value gains or losses on these swaps is offset by fair value adjustments in the underlying debt.
Cross-Currency Contracts
The Company uses cross-currency swaps to hedge foreign currency risk on certain financing arrangements. These swaps mature on dates ranging from November 2026 to September 2029, with an aggregate notional amount of $2.13 billion. These cross-currency swaps were designated as net investment hedges of the Company’s foreign currency exposure of its net investment in certain Euro-functional currency subsidiaries with Euro-denominated net assets, and the Company pays a fixed or floating rate of Euro-based interest and receives a fixed or floating rate of U.S. dollar interest. The Company has elected the spot method for assessing the effectiveness of these contracts. During the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized income of $8 million and $9 million, respectively and income of $17 million and $18 million, for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, in interest expense, net, related to the portion of cross-currency swaps excluded from hedge effectiveness testing.
Foreign Currency Contracts
The Company uses forward foreign currency contracts to mitigate the foreign currency exchange rate exposure on the cash flows related to forecasted inventory purchases and sales with maturity dates through June 2026. The derivatives used to hedge these forecasted transactions that meet the criteria for hedge accounting are accounted for as cash flow hedges. The effective portion of the gains or losses on these derivatives is deferred as a component of AOCL until it is recognized in earnings at the same time that the hedged item affects earnings and is included in the same caption (net sales and cost of products sold) in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations as the underlying hedged item. At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $249 million notional amount outstanding of forward foreign currency contracts that are designated as cash flow hedges of forecasted inventory purchases and sales.
The Company also uses foreign currency contracts, primarily forward foreign currency contracts, to mitigate the foreign currency exposure of certain other foreign currency transactions. At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $857 million notional amount outstanding of these foreign currency contracts that are not designated as effective hedges for accounting purposes and have maturity dates through June 2026. Fair market value gains or losses are included in the results of operations and are classified in other expense, net in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.
Fair Value Measurements of Derivative Instruments
The Company determines the fair value of its derivative instruments using standard pricing models and market-based assumptions for all significant inputs, such as yield curves and quoted spot and forward exchange rates. Accordingly, the Company’s derivative instruments are classified as Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. At June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments designated as effective hedges were not material by type of instrument, with the exception of cross-currency swaps included in other noncurrent liabilities. At June 30, 2025, the fair value of the derivatives, designated as effective hedges, were recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets, other accrued liabilities, and other noncurrent liabilities of $23 million, $17 million and $287 million (including cross-currency swaps of $284 million),
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respectively. At December 31, 2024 the fair value of the derivatives, designated as effective hedges, were recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets, other assets, other accrued liabilities, and other noncurrent liabilities of $39 million, $38 million, $8 million, and $64 million (including cross-currency swaps of $41 million), respectively. The fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments not designated as effective hedges were not material at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
The gain or loss activity related to the Company’s interest rate swaps and foreign currency contract derivative financial instruments, designated or previously designated as effective hedges, recognized in other comprehensive income (effective portion) were not material to any of the periods presented, except for its cross-currency swaps. The Company recognized loss of $201 million and gain of $18 million related to the Company’s cross-currency swaps, designated or previously designated as effective hedges, for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively and loss of $289 million and gain of $66 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The amount reclassified from AOCL to income has been presented in Footnote 2. The gain or loss activity recognized related to derivatives that are not designated as hedging instruments were not material for the periods presented. Gains and losses on these derivatives are mostly offset by foreign currency movement in the underlying exposure.
At June 30, 2025, net deferred losses to be reclassified to earnings over the next twelve months are not expected to be material.
Footnote 10 — Income Taxes
The Company’s effective income tax rates for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were provision of 35.2 % and 46.4 %, respectively, and a provision of 43.8 % and benefit of 50.0 % for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, due to a decrease in the forecasted tax rate for 2025 that was primarily driven by improved forecasted pretax book income and less discrete tax benefits year over year.
The differences between the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate of 21.0
The three and six months ended June 30, 2024 were impacted by certain discrete items. Income tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2024 included a discrete benefit of $64 million associated with a reduction in liabilities for unrecognized tax benefits, as the tax authorities’ examination of its U.S. tax returns for the years 2011 to 2015 and its Brazil tax returns for the years 2015 to 2017 have been completed, offset by $7 million of additional tax related to withholding taxes associated with certain previously taxed earnings that are no longer indefinitely reinvested. The six months ended June 30, 2024 also included certain discrete items totaling $4 million of additional income tax expense.
In June 2025, the Company filed its amended 2019 U.S. federal income tax return to carry back capital losses generated in 2020. This resulted in an increase in income tax expense of $3 million and an aggregate increase in noncurrent income taxes receivable of $10 million, and an increase in deferred tax liabilities of approximately $13 million.
In April 2025, the Company paid $31 million of tax for the one-time toll charge incurred in 2017 related to the Tax Credits and Jobs Act. Due to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) having not yet processed the amended 2017 return, which the Company filed during the year ended December 31, 2022, this resulted in an increase to the Company’s noncurrent income tax receivable.
In March 2025, the Company finalized its amended 2023 U.S. federal income tax return and updated its estimate of the 2024 U.S. federal income tax return. This resulted in an aggregate reduction in current income taxes payable and an increase in deferred tax liabilities of approximately $31
The Company files numerous consolidated and separate income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various state and foreign jurisdictions. The statute of limitations for the Company’s U.S. federal income tax returns has expired for years prior to 2011 and for 2016. With few exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to other income tax examinations for years before 2016.
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Other Matters
On July 4, 2025, the U.S. enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”). The OBBBA makes permanent key elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including modifications to the international tax framework, and allows immediate expensing of domestic research and development costs and changes limitations related to the expensing of business interest expense. Management is currently evaluating the effects the OBBBA will have on its consolidated financial statements.
On July 19, 2024, the Company filed a petition in the U.S. Tax Court disputing a proposed assessment by the IRS of $80 million in additional taxes and $34 million in penalties plus the additional interest calculated upon final settlement related to the transfer pricing of services performed by certain of the Company’s foreign affiliates for the tax years 2011 to 2015. The Company believes that adequate amounts have been reserved for any adjustments that may ultimately result. If the IRS prevails in the assessment of additional tax, interest and penalties in excess of the Company’s current reserves, such outcome could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position and results.
Footnote 11 — Weighted Average Shares Outstanding
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic weighted average shares outstanding | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dilutive securities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted weighted average shares outstanding | |||||||||||||||||||||||
At June 30, 2025, there were no potentially dilutive share awards with performance-based targets that were not met. At June 30, 2024, there were 0.7 million dilutive share awards with performance-based targets that were not met and as such, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share.
Footnote 12 — Share-Based Compensation
During the six months ended June 30, 2025, primarily in connection with its annual grant, the Company granted 2.0 million performance-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”), with an aggregate grant date fair value of $14 million. These performance-based RSUs entitle the recipients to shares of the Company’s common stock and vest primarily at the end of a three -year period, subject to continued employment. The actual number of shares that will ultimately be paid upon vesting is dependent on the level of achievement of the specified performance conditions.
During the six months ended June 30, 2025, primarily in connection with its annual grant, the Company also granted 6.3 million time-based RSUs with an aggregate grant date fair value of $44 million. These time-based RSUs entitle recipients to shares of the Company’s common stock and primarily vest in annual installments over a three-year period, subject to continued employment.
Footnote 13 — Segment Information
The Company’s three reportable segments are:
| Segment | Key Brands | Description of Primary Products | ||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | Ball(1), Calphalon, Crockpot, FoodSaver, Mapa, Mr. Coffee, Oster, Rubbermaid, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Sistema, Spontex, Sunbeam, WoodWick and Yankee Candle | Commercial cleaning and maintenance solutions; closet and garage organization; hygiene systems and material handling solutions; household products, including kitchen appliances; food and home storage products; fresh preserving products; vacuum sealing products; gourmet cookware, bakeware and cutlery and home fragrance products | ||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | Dymo, Elmer’s, EXPO, Graco, NUK, Paper Mate, Parker and Sharpie | Baby gear and infant care products; writing instruments, including markers and highlighters, pens and pencils; art products; activity-based products and labeling solutions | ||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | Campingaz, Coleman, Contigo and Marmot | Active lifestyle products for outdoor and outdoor-related activities; technical apparel and on-the-go beverageware | ||||||||||||
(1) 
and Ball®, TMs of Ball Corporation, used under license.
and Ball®, TMs of Ball Corporation, used under license.16
The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, who is the Chief Operating Decision Maker (the “CODM”) reviews the businesses as three operating segments: Home and Commercial Solutions, Learning and Development and Outdoor and Recreation. This structure reflects the manner in which the CODM regularly assesses information for decision-making purposes, including the allocation of resources. The Company also provides general corporate services to its segments which is reported as a non-operating segment, Corporate.
The CODM evaluates the segments’ operating performance based on segment operating income, defined as net sales minus cost of products sold, segment SG&A (including share-based compensation at target for operating segment employees) and other segment costs. Segment SG&A includes an allocation of center-led corporate functions including the bonus for such corporate functions based on achieving 100 % of the respective target. However, any variability in expense from such targets, favorable or unfavorable, is retained at corporate, and would be reflected as a corporate expense. Segment SG&A also does not include any allocation of share-based compensation related to such center-led corporate functions or any adjustments, favorable or unfavorable, between the actual share-based compensation achieved versus the share-based compensation at target for operating segment employees, which items are also reflected in corporate expense. The CODM considers budget-to-current forecast and prior actuals-to-current forecast variances for segment operating income on a periodic basis for evaluating performance of each segment and making decisions about allocating capital and other resources to each segment.
The Company’s results by segment are as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, 2025 | Three Months Ended June 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated | Home and Commercial Solutions | Learning and Development | Outdoor and Recreation | Consolidated | Home and Commercial Solutions | Learning and Development | Outdoor and Recreation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net sales (1) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of products sold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment SG&A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other segment costs (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
Corporate expenses (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 | Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated | Home and Commercial Solutions | Learning and Development | Outdoor and Recreation | Consolidated | Home and Commercial Solutions | Learning and Development | Outdoor and Recreation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net sales (1) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of products sold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment SG&A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other segment costs (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
Corporate expenses (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other expense, net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1)All intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
(2)Other segment costs primarily include segment restructuring costs, net (see Footnotes 3 for further information).
(3)Corporate expenses primarily include costs of operating as a public company, including retained costs of center-led corporate functions, corporate restructuring and restructuring-related costs (see Footnote 3 for further information) and impairment of other assets. In addition, corporate expense includes all share-based compensation and all adjustments, favorable or unfavorable, between the actual bonus achieved versus the bonus at target for center-led corporate functions, as well as all adjustments, favorable or unfavorable, between the actual share-based compensation achieved versus the share-based compensation at target for operating segment employees.
Depreciation and amortization by segment are as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Capital expenditures by segment are as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Assets by segment are as follows at (in millions):
| June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Learning and Development | |||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | |||||||||||
| Corporate | |||||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
The following table disaggregates net sales(1) by major product grouping for the periods indicated (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kitchen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home Fragrance | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baby | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
(1)All intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
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The following table disaggregates net sales(1) by geography(2) for the periods indicated (in millions):
| Three Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North America | International | TOTAL | North America | International | TOTAL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North America | International | TOTAL | North America | International | TOTAL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home and Commercial Solutions | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning and Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outdoor and Recreation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1)All intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
Footnote 14 — Litigation and Contingencies
The Company is subject to various claims and lawsuits in the ordinary course of business, including from time to time, contractual disputes, employment and environmental matters, product and general liability claims, claims that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others, and consumer and employment class actions. Some of the legal proceedings include claims for punitive as well as compensatory damages. In the ordinary course of business, the Company is also subject to legislative requests, regulatory and governmental examinations, information requests and subpoenas, inquiries, investigations, and threatened legal actions and proceedings. In connection with such formal and informal inquiries, the Company receives numerous requests, subpoenas, and orders for documents, testimony and information in connection with various aspects of its activities.
Environmental Matters
The Company is involved in various matters concerning federal and state environmental laws and regulations, including matters in which the Company has been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“U.S. EPA”) and certain state environmental agencies as a potentially responsible party (“PRP”) at contaminated sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and equivalent state laws. In assessing its environmental response costs, the Company has considered several factors, including the extent of the Company’s volumetric contribution at each site relative to that of other PRPs; the kind of waste; the terms of existing cost sharing and other applicable agreements; the financial ability of other PRPs to share in the payment of requisite costs; the Company’s prior experience with similar sites; environmental studies and cost estimates available to the Company; the effects of inflation on cost estimates; and the extent to which the Company’s and other parties’ status as PRPs is disputed.
The Company’s estimate of environmental remediation costs associated with these matters at June 30, 2025 was $36 million which is included in other accrued liabilities and other noncurrent liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. No insurance recovery was taken into account in determining the Company’s cost estimates or reserves, nor do the Company’s cost estimates or reserves reflect any discounting for present value purposes, except with respect to certain long-term operations and maintenance CERCLA matters. Because of the uncertainties associated with environmental investigations and response activities, the possibility that the Company could be identified as a PRP at sites identified in the future that require the incurrence of environmental response costs and the possibility that sites acquired in business combinations may require environmental response costs, actual costs to be incurred by the Company may vary from the Company’s estimates.
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Lower Passaic River Matter
Over 100 entities, including the Company and its subsidiary, Berol Corporation (together, the “Company Parties”), have been identified as PRPs at the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site (the “Site”) pursuant to CERCLA. The Site is divided into four “operable units,” and the Company Parties have received notice letters in connection with operable Unit 4 and operable Unit 2 (which is geographically subsumed within Unit 4). The U.S. EPA has issued records of decision for Units 2 and 4 with selected remedies that are estimated to cost approximately $1.8 billion in the aggregate. In September 2017, the U.S. EPA announced an allocation process involving roughly 80 PRPs, with the intent of offering cash-out settlements to a number of parties. The allocation process has concluded, and the Company Parties were placed in the lowest tier of relative responsibility among allocation parties. On January 31, 2024, U.S. EPA filed a motion to enter a modified consent decree to resolve the liability of the Company Parties and other settlement parties for past and future CERCLA response costs at Unit 2 and Unit 4 (“Consent Decree”), which the court granted on December 18, 2024. The Court’s order entering the Consent Decree has been appealed. As of the date of this filing, the Company does not expect that its share of payments toward the Consent Decree, if the Consent Decree is upheld following any appellate review, will be material to the Company.
In June 2018, Occidental Chemical Corporation (“OCC”) sued over 100 parties, including the Company Parties, in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey pursuant to CERCLA, requesting cost recovery, including past and future costs for investigation, design and remediation of Units 2 and 4, as well as contribution and a declaratory judgement (the “OCC Litigation”). The defendants, in turn, filed claims against 42 third-party defendants and counterclaims against OCC. OCC has also stated that it anticipates asserting claims against defendants regarding Newark Bay, which is also part of the Site, after the U.S. EPA has selected the Newark Bay remedy. The OCC Litigation is stayed pending the Court’s adjudication of the entry of the Consent Decree. At this time, the Company cannot predict the eventual outcome of the OCC Litigation.
In addition, federal trustees, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of the Interior, continue to undertake a Natural Resource Damage Assessment with respect to the Site, having previously identified the Company Parties, along with numerous other entities, as PRPs.
Based on currently known facts and circumstances, the Company does not believe that the Lower Passaic River matter is reasonably likely to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations. However, in the event of one or more adverse determinations related to this matter, including the OCC Litigation and Natural Resource Damage Assessment noted above (for which the Company cannot currently estimate the range of possible losses), it is possible that the ultimate liability resulting from this matter and the impact on the Company’s results of operations could be material.
Because of the uncertainties associated with environmental investigations and response activities, the possibility that the Company could be identified as a PRP at sites identified in the future that require the incurrence of environmental response costs and the possibility that sites acquired in business combinations may require environmental response costs, actual costs to be incurred by the Company may vary from the Company’s estimates.
Other Matters
In the normal course of business and as part of its acquisition and divestiture strategy, the Company may provide certain representations and indemnifications related to legal, environmental, product liability, tax or other types of issues. Based on the nature of these representations and indemnifications, it is not possible to predict the maximum potential payments under all of these agreements due to the conditional nature of the Company’s obligations and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. Historically, payments made by the Company under these agreements did not have a material effect on the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations. In connection with the Company’s sale of The United States Playing Card Company (“USPC”), Cartamundi, Inc. and Cartamundi España, S.L., (the “Buyers”) have notified the Company of their contention that certain representations and warranties in the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated June 4, 2019, were inaccurate and/or breached, and have sought indemnification to the extent that the Buyers are required to pay related damages arising out of a third party lawsuit that was filed against USPC in 2021.
Although the Company cannot predict the ultimate outcome of other proceedings with certainty, it believes that the ultimate resolution of the Company’s proceedings, including any amounts it may be required to pay in excess of amounts reserved, will not have a material effect on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, except as otherwise described in this Footnote 14.
At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $49 million in standby letters of credit primarily related to the Company’s self-insurance programs, including workers’ compensation, product liability and medical expenses.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis provides information which management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of Newell Brands Inc.’s (“Newell Brands,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) consolidated financial condition and results of operations. The discussion should be read in conjunction with the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.
Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities law. These statements generally can be identified by the use of words such as “intend,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “target,” “plan,” “expect,” “setting up,” “beginning to,” “will,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “resume,” “are confident that,” “remain optimistic that,” “seek to,” or similar statements. The Company cautions that forward-looking statements are not guarantees because there are inherent difficulties in predicting future results. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:
•the Company’s ability to optimize costs and cash flow and mitigate the impact of soft global demand and retailers’ inventory rebalancing through discretionary and overhead spend management, advertising and promotion expense optimization, demand forecast and supply plan adjustments and actions to improve working capital;
•the Company’s dependence on the strength of retail and consumer demand and commercial and industrial sectors of the economy in various countries around the world;
•the Company’s ability to improve productivity, reduce complexity and streamline operations;
•risks related to the Company’s substantial indebtedness, potential increases in interest rates or changes in the Company’s credit ratings including the failure to maintain financial covenants which if breached could subject us to cross-default and acceleration provisions in our debt documents;
•the impact on the Company’s operations and financial condition resulting from the current global macroeconomic environment, including the impact of tariffs imposed by the U.S. and retaliatory tariffs imposed by foreign countries, and the Company’s ability to effectively execute its mitigation plans;
•competition with other manufacturers and distributors of consumer products;
•major retailers’ strong bargaining power and consolidation of the Company’s customers;
•supply chain and operational disruptions in the markets in which we operate, including as a result of geopolitical and macroeconomic conditions and any global military conflicts including those between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East;
•changes in the prices and availability of labor, transportation, raw materials and sourced products, including significant inflation, and the Company’s ability to offset cost increases through pricing and productivity in a timely manner;
•the Company’s ability to effectively execute its turnaround plan, including the Realignment Plan and other restructuring and cost saving initiatives;
•the Company’s ability to develop innovative new products, to develop, maintain and strengthen end-user brands and to realize the benefits of increased advertising and promotion spend;
•the risks inherent to the Company’s foreign operations, including currency fluctuations, exchange controls and pricing restrictions;
•future events that could adversely affect the value of the Company’s assets and/or stock price and require additional impairment charges;
•unexpected costs or expenses associated with dispositions;
•the cost and outcomes of governmental investigations, inspections, lawsuits, legislative requests or other actions by third parties, including but not limited to those described in Footnote 14 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, the potential outcomes of which could exceed policy limits, to the extent insured;
•the Company’s ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting;
•risk associated with the use of artificial intelligence in the Company’s operations and the Company’s ability to properly manage such use;
•a failure or breach of one of the Company’s key information technology systems, networks, processes or related controls or those of the Company’s service providers;
•the impact of U.S. and foreign regulations on the Company’s operations, including environmental remediation costs and legislation and regulatory actions related to product safety, data privacy and climate change;
•the potential inability to attract, retain and motivate key employees;
•changes in tax laws and the resolution of tax contingencies resulting in additional tax liabilities;
•product liability, product recalls or related regulatory actions;
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•the Company’s ability to protect its intellectual property rights;
•the impact of climate change and the increased focus of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers on sustainability issues, as well as external expectations related to environmental, social and governance considerations;
•significant increases in the funding obligations related to the Company’s pension plans; and
•other factors listed from time to time in our SEC filings, including but not limited to our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings.
The information contained in this Report is as of the date indicated. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this Report as a result of new information or future events or developments. In addition, there can be no assurance that the Company has correctly identified and assessed all of the factors affecting the Company or that the publicly available and other information the Company receives with respect to these factors is complete or correct.
Overview
Newell Brands Inc. is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. Newell Brands is focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. The Company sells its products in over 150 countries around the world and has operations on the ground in over 40 of these countries, excluding third-party distributors. The Company has three operating segments: Home and Commercial Solutions (“H&CS”), Learning and Development (“L&D”) and Outdoor and Recreation (“O&R”).
Business Strategy
In 2023, the Company initiated a multi-year turnaround plan based on a comprehensive capability assessment and a clear set of “where to play” and “how to win” strategic choices with the goal of improving the Company’s top line, expanding margins and improving cash flow. During 2024, the Company fully deployed its strategy, transitioned to a new operating model, rebuilt its front-end capabilities and continued with its simplification agenda. This strategy is beginning to yield tangible results as evidenced by improving trends in net sales and gross margin expansion.
The Company is implementing this strategy while continuing to address key global challenges such as shifting consumer preferences and behaviors; a highly competitive operating environment; a rapidly changing retail and consumer landscape; continued macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility; a soft macro backdrop; significant cumulative inflationary pressures on consumers; recently announced and imposed tariffs by the current U.S. presidential administration and other countries’ retaliatory actions in response to such tariffs; and an evolving regulatory landscape.
In order to successfully navigate these challenges and deliver strong performance, the Company intends to continue creating and leveraging scale to unlock the full potential of the Company’s portfolio of leading brands through maintaining a disciplined approach and executing with excellence on the Company’s key priorities for 2025 including:
•Returning to profitable top line growth through product and commercial innovation, distribution expansion and international market penetration;
•Expanding gross and operating margin, building on the significant gains achieved in 2024;
•Further deleveraging the balance sheet and improving cash flow efficiency;
•Driving operational excellence through complexity reduction, technology standardization and continued stock-keeping unit (“SKU”) optimization; and
•Strengthening our high-performance culture, emphasizing accountability, innovation and inclusion.
The Company is deeply committed to sustaining its turnaround momentum and driving long-term profitable growth.
Execution of these strategic imperatives, in combination with other initiatives aimed to build operational excellence, will better position the Company for long-term sustainable growth. One such initiative is the organizational realignment (“Realignment Plan”), which was designed to strengthen the Company’s front-end commercial capabilities, such as consumer understanding and brand communication, in support of the “where to play” and “how to win” strategies the Company initiated in 2023. In addition to improving accountability, the Realignment Plan was designed to unlock operational efficiencies and cost savings, reduce complexity and free up funds for reinvestment. As part of the Realignment Plan, the Company has made several operating model changes, which entailed: standing up a cross-functional brand management organization, realigning business unit finance to fully support the new global brand management model, further simplifying and standardizing regional go-to-market organizations, and centralizing domestic retail sales teams, the digital technology team, business-aligned accounting personnel, the Manufacturing
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Quality team, and the Human Resources functions into the appropriate center-led teams to drive standardization, efficiency and scale with a One Newell approach. The Company has also further optimized the Company’s real estate footprint and pursued other cost reduction initiatives. These actions were primarily implemented by the end of 2024. The remaining actions, subject to applicable local law and consultation requirements, are expected to be implemented by the end of fiscal year 2025.
In addition, the Company continues to review its operating footprint and non-core brands, which will result in future restructuring and restructuring-related charges.
Recent Developments
Update on Tariffs
The current U.S. presidential administration has announced and/or imposed a series of new tariffs on foreign imports into the U.S., including without limitation significant tariffs on products manufactured in China. Tariffs on imports into the U.S., most significantly from China, and any retaliatory tariffs on exports from the U.S. to other countries, will increase costs for the Company and could impact the level of trade between the U.S. and its various trading partners around the globe in general.
We believe that the Company is well positioned to respond to the current tariff environment, primarily because the Company maintains a significant U.S. manufacturing presence of 15 production facilities and manufactures, in the U.S. and two of its facilities in Mexico, products representing over half of the Company’s U.S. revenues that are not presently subject to the recently announced U.S. tariffs. This manufacturing presence is expected to provide a competitive advantage to the Company in certain categories where its competitors are exposed to import tariffs. The Company also has a scaled, centralized procurement team that is proficient in sourcing raw materials and finished products from over 50 countries around the world.
Based on the currently announced and imposed tariffs as well as any retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, the Company anticipates an incremental cash tariff cost of approximately $155 million in 2025 prior to any offsetting impact from mitigating actions. There will be a timing difference between the operating cash outflow and the recognition of cost of products sold arising from the tariffs. As a result, the Company anticipates recognizing approximately $105 million of incremental costs of products sold (including $10 million in the second quarter) in the Statement of Operations in 2025. The Company continues to deploy a mitigation strategy designed to offset the impact of this tariff exposure through a number of actions, including pricing, productivity and in some cases relocation of manufacturing. At this time, it is difficult to predict the rate or duration of these tariffs, and there can be no assurance as to the extent to which the Company will be able to offset the impact through mitigation actions. Additional tariffs or further increases to the U.S. tariffs, retaliatory actions taken by other countries, or failure to effectively deploy the Company’s mitigation plans could have a significant negative impact on the Company.
Debt Issuance and Redemption
In May 2025, the Company completed the offering and sale of $1.25 billion of 8.500% senior notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”) and received proceeds of approximately $1.23 billion, net of fees and expenses paid. The Company used the proceeds of the offering to fully redeem its outstanding 4.200% senior notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”) at a redemption price equal to 100.757% of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the notes, plus accrued unpaid interest to the redemption date. The total consideration was approximately $1.25 billion. As a result of the redemption, the Company recorded a loss on debt extinguishment of $13 million.
Debt Rating Downgrades
During the second quarter of 2025, Moody’s Corporation (“Moody’s”) and S&P Global Inc. (“S&P”) downgraded the Company’s senior unsecured debt rating to “B1” and “B+”, respectively. As a result, certain of the Company’s outstanding senior notes are subject to an interest rate adjustment of 25 basis points for each downgrade, or 50 basis points in the aggregate, with such adjustments to take effect in the fourth quarter of this year. The change to the interest rate due to the downgrades will increase the Company’s interest expense by approximately $5 million on an annualized basis (approximately $1 million in 2025).
See Footnote 8 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on debt issuance and redemption as well as the debt rating downgrades.
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Results of Operations
Three Months Ended June 30, 2025 vs. Three Months Ended June 30, 2024
Consolidated Operating Results
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 1,935 | $ | 2,033 | $ | (98) | (4.8)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 685 | 699 | (14) | (2.0)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 35.4 | % | 34.4 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 171 | 163 | 8 | 4.9% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 8.8 | % | 8.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 82 | 78 | 4 | 5.1% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | 13 | — | 13 | 100.0% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other expense, net | 5 | 1 | 4 | NM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | 71 | 84 | (13) | (15.5)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax provision | 25 | 39 | (14) | (35.9)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax rate | 35.2 | % | 46.4 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 46 | $ | 45 | $ | 1 | 2.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| Diluted earnings per share | $ | 0.11 | $ | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||
NM - NOT MEANINGFUL
Net sales for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased 5%. Net sales were unfavorably impacted by continued softness in global demand across all segments and net distribution losses in the H&CS and O&R segments. These unfavorable factors were partially mitigated by launches of product innovations in the H&CS and L&D segments and to a lesser extent in the O&R segment. In addition, pricing actions, including actions to mitigate recently announced tariffs, and shipment timing ahead of the back-to-school season in the L&D segment favorably impacted net sales. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by $4 million, or less than 1%.
Gross profit decreased 2% compared to the prior year. Gross margin improved to 35.4% as compared with 34.4% in the prior year. The improvement in gross margin was driven by gross productivity, pricing actions and lower restructuring-related charges of approximately $6 million, partially offset by the volume impact of lower sales and inflation. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates favorably impacted gross profit by $2 million, or less than 1%.
Notable items, other than those noted above, impacting operating income for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | |||||||||||||||
Restructuring and restructuring-related costs (See Footnote 3) (1) | $ | 12 | $ | 26 | $ | (14) | |||||||||||
Transaction costs and other (2) | 2 | 5 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
(1)For the three months ended June 30, 2025, restructuring-related costs reported in cost of products sold and selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”) were $1 million and $5 million, respectively, and primarily relate to facility closures associated with various discrete initiatives as well as previously disclosed but substantially completed restructuring activities. For the three months ended June 30, 2024, restructuring-related costs reported in cost of products sold, SG&A and impairment of other assets were $7 million, $3 million and $6 million, respectively, primarily related to facility closures associated with previously disclosed Network Optimization Project and Project Phoenix, as well as the Realignment Plan and other discrete initiatives. Restructuring costs were $6 million and $10 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, primarily related to the Realignment Plan.
(2)Transaction costs and other for the three months ended June 30, 2025 primarily related to hyperinflationary currency movements. For the three months ended June 30, 2024 transaction and other costs related to hyperinflationary currency movements and to accelerated amortization and write-off of other assets associated with integration projects.
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Operating income was $171 million as compared to $163 million in the prior year period. The increase reflects the impact of savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan, lower restructuring and restructuring-related charges of approximately $8 million and lower advertising and promotion costs of $4 million, partially offset by lower gross profit of $14 million.
Interest expense, net increased by $4 million due to higher interest rates and lower interest income. The weighted average interest rates for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were approximately 6.3% and 6.0%, respectively.
The loss on extinguishment of debt of $13 million is related to the redemption of the Company’s 2026 Notes during June 2025.
See Footnote 8 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt.
Other expense, net for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 includes the following items:
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||
| Foreign exchange (gains) losses, net | $ | 1 | $ | (1) | |||||||
| Discount on factored receivables and other, net | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| $ | 5 | $ | 1 | ||||||||
The income tax provision for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $25 million as compared to $39 million for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The Company’s effective income tax rates for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were provision of 35.2% and 46.4% respectively, primarily due to a decrease in the forecasted tax rate for 2025 that was mainly driven by improved forecasted pretax book income year over year. See Footnote 10 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
Business Segment Operating Results
Home and Commercial Solutions
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 892 | $ | 962 | $ | (70) | (7.3)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 24 | 48 | (24) | (50.0)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 2.7 | % | 5.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
H&CS net sales for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased 7%, driven by the Kitchen and, to a lesser extent the Commercial business, primarily due to soft global demand and distribution losses. Business exits across the segment also unfavorably impacted net sales by approximately 1%. Pricing actions, including actions to mitigate recently announced tariffs, and contributions from new product launches primarily in the Kitchen and Home Fragrance businesses, partially offset these unfavorable factors. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by approximately $9 million, or 1%.
Operating income for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $24 million as compared to $48 million in the prior year. The decrease in operating income is due to lower gross profit of $19 million, primarily resulting from unfavorable fixed cost leverage associated with the lower sales volume and inflation, as well as approximately $4 million increase in restructuring-related charges. These unfavorable impacts were partially offset by savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan.
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Learning and Development
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 809 | $ | 813 | $ | (4) | (0.5)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 202 | 205 | (3) | (1.5)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 25.0 | % | 25.2 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
L&D net sales for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased less than 1%. Net sales in the Writing business increased primarily due to net distribution gains, pricing actions and contributions from launches of product innovations, as well as the timing of back-to-school shipments. Net sales in the Baby business declined primarily due to soft demand in certain markets and net distribution losses, partially offset by pricing actions, including actions to mitigate recently announced tariffs, and contributions from launches of product innovations. Changes in foreign currency favorably impacted net sales by approximately $1 million, or less than 1%.
Operating income for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased to $202 million as compared to $205 million in the prior-year period. The decrease in operating income is primarily due to lower gross profit of $7 million, reflecting the impact of lower net sales and inflation, partially offset by gross productivity. The decrease in gross profit was partially offset by lower advertising and promotion costs of approximately $4 million, as well as savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan.
Outdoor and Recreation
| Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 234 | $ | 258 | $ | (24) | (9.3)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | 8 | (11) | 19 | NM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 3.4 | % | (4.3) | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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O&R net sales for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased 9% primarily due to distribution losses, soft demand and to a lesser extent, business exits. These declines were partially offset by pricing actions, including actions to mitigate recently announced tariffs, and contribution from the launches of product innovation. Changes in foreign currency favorably impacted net sales by approximately $4 million, or 2%.
Operating income for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $8 million as compared to operating loss of $11 million in the prior-year period. The improvement in operating performance was mainly due to higher gross profit of $12 million driven primarily by gross productivity, pricing actions and mix. Savings from restructuring actions also contributed to the improvement in operating performance.
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Results of Operations
Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 vs. Six Months Ended June 30, 2024
Consolidated Operating Results
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 3,501 | $ | 3,686 | $ | (185) | (5.0)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,188 | 1,203 | (15) | (1.2)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 33.9 | % | 32.6 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 192 | 179 | 13 | 7.3% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 5.5 | % | 4.9 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 154 | 148 | 6 | 4.1% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment and modification of debt | 13 | 1 | 12 | NM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other expense, net | 9 | 6 | 3 | 50.0% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | 16 | 24 | (8) | (33.3)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax provision (benefit) | 7 | (12) | 19 | NM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax rate | 43.8 | % | (50.0) | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 9 | $ | 36 | $ | (27) | (75.0)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Diluted earnings per share | $ | 0.02 | $ | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||
NM - NOT MEANINGFUL
Net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2025 decreased approximately 5%. Net sales were unfavorably impacted by soft global demand across all segments and net distribution losses in the H&CS and O&R segments. Business exits, primarily in the H&CS and O&R segments also unfavorably impacted net sales. These unfavorable factors were partially mitigated by launches of product innovations in the H&CS and L&D segments and to a lesser extent in the O&R segment. In addition, pricing actions and shipment timing ahead of back-to-school season in the L&D segment favorably impacted net sales. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by $48 million, or 1%.
Gross profit decreased by approximately $15 million, or 1% compared to the prior year. Gross margin improved to 33.9% as compared with 32.6% in the prior year. The improvement in gross margin was driven by gross productivity, pricing and lower restructuring-related charges of approximately $11 million, or 1%, partially offset by the volume impact of lower sales and inflation. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates unfavorably impacted gross profit by $8 million, or 1%.
Notable items, other than those noted above, impacting operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | |||||||||||||||
Restructuring and restructuring-related costs (See Footnote 3) (1) | $ | 37 | $ | 65 | $ | (28) | |||||||||||
Transaction costs and other (2) | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
(1)For the six months ended June 30, 2025, restructuring-related costs reported in cost of products sold and SG&A were $4 million and $16 million, respectively, and primarily relate to facility closures associated with various discrete initiatives as well as previously announced but substantially completed restructuring activities. For the six months ended June 30, 2024, restructuring-related costs reported in cost of products sold, SG&A and impairment of other assets were $15 million, $8 million and $6 million, respectively, primarily related to facility closures associated with previously disclosed Network Optimization Project and Project Phoenix, as well as the Realignment Plan and other discrete initiatives. Restructuring costs were $17 million and $36 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, primarily related to the Realignment Plan.
(2)Transaction costs and other for the six months ended June 30, 2025 primarily related to hyperinflationary currency movements. For the six months ended June 30, 2024 transaction and other costs primarily related to a release of a bad debt reserve due to a recovery of a receivable from an international customer, hyperinflationary currency movements and accelerated amortization and write-off of other assets associated with integration projects.
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Operating income was $192 million as compared to $179 million in the prior year period. The increase reflects the impact of savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan, lower restructuring and restructuring-related charges of $17 million and lower amortization of tradenames of $4 million, partially offset by lower gross profit of $15 million.
Interest expense, net increased by $6 million due to higher interest rates and lower interest income. The weighted average interest rates for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were approximately 6.2% and 5.8%, respectively.
The loss on extinguishment of debt of $13 million is related to the redemption of the Company’s 2026 Notes during June 2025.
See Footnote 8 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt.
Other expense, net for six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 includes the following items:
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||
| Foreign exchange losses, net | $ | 2 | $ | 2 | |||||||
| Discount on factored receivables and other, net | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
| $ | 9 | $ | 6 | ||||||||
The income tax expense for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $7 million as compared to benefit of $12 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The Company’s effective income tax rates for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were expense of 43.8% and benefit of 50.0% respectively, as the decrease in the forecasted rate for 2025 primarily driven by improved forecasted pretax book income was offset by a decrease in discrete benefits in the current year. See Footnote 10 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
Business Segment Operating Results
Home and Commercial Solutions
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 1,704 | $ | 1,855 | $ | (151) | (8.1)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 22 | 64 | (42) | (65.6)% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 1.3 | % | 3.5 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
H&CS net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2025 decreased 8%, which reflected soft global demand across all businesses, primarily in the Kitchen business, as well as net distribution losses. Business exits also unfavorably impacted net sales by approximately 1%. Pricing actions and contributions from new product launches, partially offset these unfavorable factors. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by $37 million, or 2%.
Operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $22 million as compared to $64 million in the prior year. The decrease in operating income is primarily due to lower gross profit of $34 million, resulting from unfavorable fixed cost leverage associated with lower sales volume and inflation, partially offset by gross productivity. The decrease in gross profit was partially offset by savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan and lower restructuring and restructuring-related charges of $5 million.
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Learning and Development
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 1,381 | $ | 1,372 | $ | 9 | 0.7% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 300 | 299 | 1 | 0.3% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 21.7 | % | 21.8 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
L&D net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2025 increased approximately 1%. Both the Baby and Writing businesses increased modestly due to net distribution gains, pricing actions and contributions from launches of product innovations, as well as favorable timing of back-to-school shipments in the Writing business. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by $10 million, or 1%.
Operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2025 increased to $300 million as compared to $299 million in the prior-year period. Operating income increased modestly benefiting from gross productivity and pricing, savings from restructuring actions primarily related to the Realignment Plan, as well as lower restructuring and restructuring-related charges of approximately $7 million, partially offset by inflation.
Outdoor and Recreation
| Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales | $ | 416 | $ | 459 | $ | (43) | (9.4)% | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | 3 | (29) | 32 | NM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating margin | 0.7 | % | (6.3) | % | |||||||||||||||||||
NM - NOT MEANINGFUL
O&R net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2025 decreased 9% primarily due to net distribution losses, soft global demand and business exits. These declines were partially offset by pricing actions and contribution from launches of product innovation. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted net sales by $1 million, or less than 1%.
Operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $3 million as compared to operating loss of $29 million in the prior-year period. The improvement in operating performance was due to higher gross profit of $19 million driven primarily by gross productivity, pricing actions and mix. Savings from restructuring actions and lower amortization of certain tradenames of approximately $3 million also contributed to the improvement of operating income.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Liquidity
The Company regularly assesses its cash requirements and the available sources to fund these needs. The Company believes the extent of the impact of this rapidly changing retail and consumer landscape, which reflects major retailers’ focus on tight control over their inventory levels, fluctuating interest rates and indirect macroeconomic impacts from geopolitical conflicts as well as recently imposed tariffs by the current U.S. presidential administration, including those most recently announced reciprocal tariffs, some of which are currently delayed, and countries’ retaliatory actions in response to such tariffs, will continue to be driven by numerous evolving factors the Company cannot accurately predict and which will vary.
For further information, refer to Risk Factors in Part I - Item 1A and Recent Developments in Part II - Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on February 14, 2025.
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At June 30, 2025, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $219 million, of which approximately $185 million was held by the Company’s non-U.S. subsidiaries.
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash increased (decreased) as follows for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 (in millions):
| 2025 | 2024 | Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||||
| Cash provided by (used in) operating activities | $ | (271) | $ | 64 | $ | (335) | |||||||||||
| Cash used in investing activities | (92) | (84) | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| Cash provided by financing activities | 382 | 78 | 304 | ||||||||||||||
| Exchange rate effect on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | 4 | (14) | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | 23 | $ | 44 | $ | (21) | |||||||||||
The Company has historically generated the majority of its operating cash flow in the third and fourth quarters of the year due to seasonal variations in operating results, the timing of annual performance-based compensation payments, customer program payments, working capital requirements and credit terms provided to customers.
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
The change in net cash used in operating activities reflects higher working capital requirements of the Company due to lapping of prior year reductions, decrease in factored accounts receivable and higher incentive compensation payments in the current year, partially offset by lower restructuring payments.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
The higher cash used in investing activities was primarily due to higher capital expenditures.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
The change in net cash provided by financing activities was due to higher utilization of the Credit Revolver (defined hereafter) during the current period. See Footnote 8 of the Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
Capital Resources
Credit Revolver
The Company maintains a $1.00 billion senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Revolver”) maturing in August 2027. Under the Credit Revolver, the Company may borrow funds on a variety of interest terms. The Credit Revolver agreement (i) requires the Company to satisfy financial covenants testing the Company’s Collateral Coverage Ratio and Total Net Leverage Ratio (each further defined in the Credit Revolver, as amended), (ii) requires the Company and certain of its domestic and foreign subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”) to guaranty Company obligations under the Credit Revolver and (iii) requires the Company and other Guarantors to grant a lien and security interest in certain assets consisting of eligible accounts receivables, eligible inventory, eligible equipment and eligible intellectual property, and all products and proceeds of the foregoing, subject to certain limitations. Other than outstanding borrowings under the Credit Revolver, availability under the Credit Revolver is subject to change in accordance with the terms of the agreement, including in response to changes in the Company’s pledged collateral value or outstanding letters of credit under the Credit Revolver. At June 30, 2025, there was $989 million of availability under the Credit Revolver, based on the value of the pledged collateral and prior to giving effect to outstanding borrowings and letters of credit.
The Credit Revolver provides for the issuance of up to $150 million of letters of credit, so long as there is sufficient availability for borrowing under the Credit Revolver. At June 30, 2025, the Company had approximately $35 million of outstanding standby letters of credit issued against the Credit Revolver and $495 million of outstanding borrowings under the Credit Revolver resulting in a net availability of approximately $459 million.
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Senior Notes
In May 2025, the Company completed the offering and sale of the 2028 Notes. In June 2025, the Company used the proceeds of the offering to fully redeem its 2026 Notes.
Also during the second quarter of 2025, Moody’s and S&P downgraded the Company’s senior unsecured debt rating. As a result, certain of the Company’s outstanding senior notes were subject to interest rate adjustments, with such adjustments to take effect in the fourth quarter of this year.
See Recent Developments under this Item 2 and Footnote 8 of the Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
The Company was in compliance with all of its debt covenants at June 30, 2025.
Risk Management
From time to time, the Company enters into derivative transactions to hedge its exposures to interest rate, foreign currency rate and commodity price fluctuations. The Company does not enter into derivative transactions for trading purposes.
See Footnote 9 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on the Company's derivative instruments.
Significant Accounting Policies and Critical Estimates
For further information on significant accounting policies and critical estimates, refer to the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on February 14, 2025 and Footnote 1 of the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
There have been no material changes from the information previously reported under Part II, Item 7A. in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information which is required to be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating such controls and procedures, the Company recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives.
As required by Rule 13a-15(b) of the Exchange Act, the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report. Based on that evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of June 30, 2025.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended June 30, 2025, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Information required under this Item is contained above in Part I. Financial Information, Item 1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
There have been no material changes in our risk factors from those disclosed in Part I, Item 1A. of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table provides information about the Company’s purchases of equity securities during the three months ended June 30, 2025:
| Calendar Month | Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | Average Price Paid Per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs | |||||||||||||||||||
| April | — | $ | — | — | $ | — | |||||||||||||||||
| May | 34,548 | 5.85 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| June | 46,706 | 5.30 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 81,254 | $ | 5.54 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
(1)Shares purchased during the three months ended June 30, 2025 were acquired by the Company based on their fair market value on the vesting date in order to satisfy employees’ tax withholding and payment obligations in connection with the vesting of awards of restricted stock units.
Item 5. Other Information
None of the Company’s directors and officers adopted terminated
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Item 6. Exhibits
| Exhibit Number | Description of Exhibit | |||||||
| ITEM 10 — MATERIAL CONTRACTS | ||||||||
| 10.1 | ||||||||
| 10.2 | ||||||||
| 10.3* | ||||||||
| ITEM 31 — RULE 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) CERTIFICATIONS | ||||||||
| 31.1† | ||||||||
| 31.2† | ||||||||
| ITEM 32 — SECTION 1350 CERTIFICATIONS | ||||||||
| 32.1† | ||||||||
| 32.2† | ||||||||
| ITEM 101 — INTERACTIVE DATA FILE | ||||||||
| 101.SCH | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema | |||||||
| 101.CAL | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase | |||||||
| 101.DEF | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase | |||||||
| 101.LAB | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase | |||||||
| 101.PRE | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase | |||||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). | |||||||
† Filed herewith.
* Represents management contracts and compensatory plans and arrangements.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
NEWELL BRANDS INC. Registrant | |||||||||||
| Date: | August 1, 2025 | /s/ Mark J. Erceg | |||||||||
| Mark J. Erceg | |||||||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||
| Date: | August 1, 2025 | /s/ Robert A. Schmidt | |||||||||
| Robert A. Schmidt | |||||||||||
| Chief Accounting Officer | |||||||||||
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EXHIBIT 31.1
CERTIFICATION
I, Christopher H. Peterson, certify that:
| 1. | I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q for Newell Brands Inc.; | |||||||
| 2. | Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; | |||||||
| 3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; | |||||||
| 4. | The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: | |||||||
| (a) | designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared; | |||||||
| (b) | designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; | |||||||
| (c) | evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and | |||||||
| (d) | disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and | |||||||
| 5. | The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): | |||||||
| (a) | all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and | |||||||
| (b) | any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. | |||||||
Date: August 1, 2025
/s/ Christopher H. Peterson
Christopher H. Peterson
President and Chief Executive Officer
EXHIBIT 31.2
CERTIFICATION
I, Mark J. Erceg, certify that:
| 1. | I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q for Newell Brands Inc.; | |||||||
| 2. | Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; | |||||||
| 3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; | |||||||
| 4. | The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: | |||||||
| (a) | designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared; | |||||||
| (b) | designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; | |||||||
| (c) | evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and | |||||||
| (d) | disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and | |||||||
| 5. | The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): | |||||||
| (a) | all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and | |||||||
| (b) | any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. | |||||||
Date: August 1, 2025
/s/ Mark J. Erceg
Mark J. Erceg
Chief Financial Officer
EXHIBIT 32.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the quarterly report of Newell Brands Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Christopher H. Peterson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
/s/ Christopher H. Peterson
Christopher H. Peterson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Date: August 1, 2025
EXHIBIT 32.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the quarterly report of Newell Brands Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Mark J. Erceg, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
/s/ Mark J. Erceg
Mark J. Erceg
Chief Financial Officer
Date: August 1, 2025