Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000021665-25-000025
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Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On May 29, 2025, Colgate-Palmolive Company (the “ Company”) announced that its Board of Directors (the “ Board”) had elected Shane Grant as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, Americas, reporting to Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Noel R. Wallace, effective June 16, 2025.

Mr. Grant, 50, will join the Company from Group Danone (“ Danone”), a leading global food and beverage company, where he has been Group Deputy CEO, CEO Americas and EVP Dairy, Plant-Based and Global Sales since January 2023. Mr. Grant joined Danone in May 2020 and served as Executive Vice President & CEO, Danone North America. He assumed the additional role of interim co-CEO, Danone in March 2021. Prior to Danone, Mr. Grant spent almost 20 years with The Coca-Cola Company, where he held various leadership roles of increasing responsibility in category leadership, commercial and general management.

The independent Personnel and Organization Committee (the “ Committee”) of the Board approved the following compensatory arrangements for Mr. Grant in his role as Chief Operating Officer, Americas of the Company, effective June 16, 2025. Mr. Grant will receive a base salary of $1,100,000. He will be eligible to receive an annual cash bonus for 2025 with a target award of 115% of base salary based on the achievement of performance measures applicable to other Company executives. Mr. Grant’s actual cash bonus may vary from target based on performance, as determined by the Committee. Mr. Grant will also receive a replacement equity award of 90,000 restricted stock units, which will vest in three installments - 45,000 vesting on June 16, 2026, 22,500 vesting on June 16, 2027 and 22,500 vesting on June 16, 2028. To compensate Mr. Grant for certain benefits he will forego upon his departure from Danone, he will also receive a one-time sign-on bonus of $1,000,000 and a transition allowance of $1,500,000, in each case payable in two equal installments, the first coincident with the commencement of his employment and the second on June 16, 2026. In addition,