# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000789460
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-139154
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 6165
**Document Hash:** 50b1285279d37763f5d3742657d3846c
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-139154.hdr.sgml**: 20250611

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-139154

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K/A

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250425

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250611

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250611

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** WORLD KINECT CORP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000789460
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** WHOLESALE-PETROLEUM & PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (NO BULK STATIONS) [5172]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 07 Trade & Services
- **EIN:** 592459427
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** FL
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K/A
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-09533
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251040200

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 9800 N.W. 41ST STREET
- **CITY:** MIAMI
- **STATE:** FL
- **ZIP:** 33178
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 305-428-8000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 9800 N.W. 41ST STREET
- **CITY:** MIAMI
- **STATE:** FL
- **ZIP:** 33178

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** WORLD FUEL SERVICES CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19951031

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 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): April 25, 2025

## WORLD KINECT CORPORATION

#### (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Florida** | **001-09533** | **59-2459427** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction**<br> **of incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br> **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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| **9800 N.W. 41st Street**<br> **Miami, Florida** | **33178** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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#### Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (305) 428-8000

#### Not Applicable

#### (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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:

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

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br> **Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br> **on which registered** |
| Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | WKC | New York Stock Exchange |

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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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#### Explanatory Note
On April 29, 2025, World Kinect Corporation (the "Company") filed a Current Report on Form 8-K (the "Original Form 8-K") to disclose certain executive officer promotions involving Messrs. Ira M. Birns and John P. Rau (the "Promotions"). This Current Report on Form 8-K/A (this "Amendment") amends the Original Form 8-K solely for the purpose of disclosing certain compensation now being provided to Messrs. Birns and Rau in connection with the Promotions. The disclosure contained in Item 5.02 of the Original Form 8-K is hereby supplemented and amended by the disclosure contained in Item 5.02 of this Amendment. Other than providing the additional information contained below in Item 5.02 of this Amendment, no other disclosure in the Original Form 8-K is amended by this Amendment.

#### Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
As previously disclosed on the Original Form 8-K filed, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Company appointed Ira M. Birns, the Company's then current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as President and Chief Financial Officer, and appointed John P. Rau, the Company's then current Executive Vice President, Global Aviation, Land and Marine, as Chief Operating Officer.

On June 5, 2025, the Compensation Committee of the Board granted promotion awards for Messrs. Rau and Birns. Each of the awards consists of performance-based restricted stock units with a grant date fair value of $700,000. The award will be earned only if the Company achieves a pre-determined average adjusted earnings per share goal for a three-year performance period ending December 31, 2027, and the recipient remains employed with the Company through June 5, 2028. The awards will otherwise be subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable award agreement, and will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Company's Clawback Policy.

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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.

Date: June 11, 2025

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| **World Kinect Corporation** |
| /s/ Joel M. Williams |
| Joel M. Williams |
| Assistant Corporate Secretary |

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