# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001826470
**File Stem:** 0000950170-23-000139
**Filing Date:** 2023-1
**Character Count:** 8510
**Document Hash:** 4fc39fc5afc33348355e51c5a0e4786d
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000950170-23-000139.hdr.sgml**: 20230104

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000950170-23-000139

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230104

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Regulation FD Disclosure

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230104

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230104

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Petco Health & Wellness Company, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001826470
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** RETAIL-RETAIL STORES, NEC [5990]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 811005932
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0128

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-39878
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23507212

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 10850 VIA FRONTERA
- **CITY:** SAN DIEGO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92127
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 1-858-453-7845

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 10850 VIA FRONTERA
- **CITY:** SAN DIEGO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92127

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PET Acquisition LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20200929

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Petco Acquisition LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20200929

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**UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

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**FORM** 8-K

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**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 04, 2023<br>

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Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.

**(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)**

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| Delaware | 001-39878 | 81-1005932 |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation)** | **(Commission File Number)** | **(IRS Employer<br>Identification No.)** |
| 10850 Via Frontera |  |  |
| San Diego**,** California |  | 92127 |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** |  | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code:** (858) 453-7845<br>

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)**

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

**Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:**

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| **<br>Title of each class** | **Trading<br>Symbol(s)** | **<br>Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share | WOOF | The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

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. ☐

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**Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.**

On January 4, 2023, Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (the "Company") issued a press release announcing that it will participate in a fireside chat at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 12:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The full text of the press release is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1.

The live audio webcast will be made available on the Company's investor relations page at ir.petco.com. A replay of the webcast will also be made available on the Company's investor relations page through January 26, 2023.

The information being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise be subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

**Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.**

(d) Exhibits

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| **Exhibit Number** | **Description** |
| 99.1 | [<u>Press Release, dated January 4, 2023</u>](woof-ex99_1.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |

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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 hereunto duly authorized.

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|  |  |  | **Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.** |
| Date: | January 4, 2023 | By:  | /s/ Ilene Eskenazi |
|  |  |  | Name: Ilene Eskenazi<br>Title: Chief Legal and Human Resources Officer and Secretary |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**Exhibit 99.1**

**Petco to Participate in the 25**<sup>th</sup> **Annual Needham Growth Conference**

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (the "Company" or "Petco") (Nasdaq: WOOF) today announced that the Company will participate in a fireside chat at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 12:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The live audio webcast will be available via the Company's investor relations page at ir.petco.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived on the Company's website through January 26, 2023.

**About Petco, The Health + Wellness Co.:**

Founded in 1965, Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and our own Petco partners. We've consistently set new standards in pet care while delivering comprehensive pet wellness products, services and solutions, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. We operate more than 1,500 pet care centers across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, which offer merchandise, companion animals, grooming, training and a growing network of on-site veterinary hospitals and mobile veterinary clinics. Our complete pet health and wellness ecosystem is accessible through our pet care centers and digitally at petco.com and on the Petco app. In tandem with Petco Love (formerly the Petco Foundation), an independent nonprofit organization, we work with and support thousands of local animal welfare groups across the country and, through in-store adoption events, we've helped find homes for more than 6.6 million animals.

**Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements**

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, concerning expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical fact. Although Petco believes that the expectations and assumptions reflected in these statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that these expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties, including the risk factors that Petco identifies in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in such forward-looking statements. Petco undertakes no duty to update publicly any forward-looking statement that it may make, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law, regulation or other competent legal authority.

Investor Relations, investorrelations@petco.com; Media Relations, Benjamin Thiele-Long, benjamin.thiele-long@petco.com

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