TrueBlue, Inc 8-K/A, filed Jan 7, 2021
TrueBlue, Inc. (TBI)
8-K/A
2021-01-07
For: 2020-07-27
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About this 8-K/A
TrueBlue, Inc filed this 8-K/A on January 7, 2021, reporting on events of July 27, 2020.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
- Item 9.01: Financial statements and exhibits
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K/A
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 6, 2021(July 27, 2020 )
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Explanatory Note
This Amendment to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K (the "Amendment") amends the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with Securities and Exchange Committee on July 27, 2020. The Amendment is being filed to update the Form 8-K to include the missing Inline XBRL on the cover page. No additional changes to the Form 8-K and the exhibit thereto as originally filed have been made.
| Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. | ||||
On July 27, 2020, TrueBlue, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment and election of Robert (Chris) Kreidler to the Company’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Mr. Kreidler currently serves as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co. and as a non-executive board member of Individual Food Service and Alyasra Foods (Kuwait). Mr. Kreidler was the Chief Financial Officer for Sysco Corporation from 2009-2015. Prior to that, Mr. Kreidler served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Customer Officer for C&S Wholesale Grocers, and spent over 11 years at Yum! Brands, where he held multiple roles, ultimately serving as SVP Strategy and Global Treasurer. In connection with his election as a director of the Company, Mr. Kreidler was appointed to serve on the Company’s Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Innovation and Technology committees.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Kreidler and any other persons pursuant to which Mr. Kreidler was selected as a director. There are no transactions since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, or any currently proposed transactions, in which the Company was or is to be a participant and in which Mr. Kreidler, or any member of his immediate family, has a direct or indirect material interest.
Mr. Kreidler will be entitled to receive the same compensation for service as director as is provided to other non-employee directors of the Company (on a prorated basis for 2020), and will be able to participate in the Company’s Equity Retainer and Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors, in each case as described in more detail in the Company’s 2020 Proxy Statement under the heading “Compensation of Directors.”
On July 27, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Kreidler, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. | ||||
(d)Exhibits
| Exhibit Number | Exhibit Description | Filed Herewith | ||||||
| 99.1 | X | |||||||
| 104 | Cover page interactive data file - The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K is formatted as Inline XBRL | X | ||||||
SIGNATURE
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 hereunto duly authorized.
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| Date: | July 27, 2020 | By: | /s/ Todd N. Gilman | |||||||||||
| Todd N. Gilman | ||||||||||||||
| Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Secretary | ||||||||||||||
EXHIBIT 99.1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TrueBlue Appoints Chris Kreidler to Board of Directors
TACOMA, WA – July 27, 2020 – TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is pleased to announce that Chris Kreidler has been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. He will serve on TrueBlue’s Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Innovation and Technology committees.
Mr. Kreidler, 56, is a seasoned senior executive with more than 30 years of global experience in strategic planning, finance, and operations across a range of large-scale consumer companies. Mr. Kreidler had a lengthy and distinguished career at Sysco Corporation where he was instrumental in driving multibillion-dollar revenue growth and redefining Sysco’s strategic focus from growth to operating profit and scale. Prior to that, Mr. Kreidler served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Customer Officer for C&S Wholesale Grocers, and spent over 11 years at Yum! Brands, where he held multiple roles, ultimately serving as SVP of Strategy and Global Treasurer.
“Chris has an impressive track record of applying innovative financial and operational strategies to deliver profitable growth and long-term shareholder value,” said TrueBlue Chairman Steven Cooper. “We are pleased to welcome him to our Board and look forward to leveraging his insights as we further our digital transformation and growth and execute on our mission to connect people with work.”
Mr. Kreidler is currently a Senior Advisor for McKinsey & Company’s merger management practice, and sits on two private company boards operating in the food service sector in the US and the Middle East. He previously served in a Board capacity for Aimia, Inc., a Canadian public company, and P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Wok Holdings, both private companies. He is also a member of the Council of Overseers for Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
About TrueBlue
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2019, TrueBlue connected approximately 724,000 people with work. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial staffing, PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries. Learn more at www.trueblue.com.
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