-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Je9RPJkHNZ6n+QLSPoJEu6Now/RiAJiti+M6Q8iLSO1TSjYFZ6DiEXlmC+aIUlYA IUnWqjOTyiEdMIchp/jDJQ== 0000950135-07-005453.txt : 20070831 0000950135-07-005453.hdr.sgml : 20070831 20070831130044 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950135-07-005453 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070824 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20070831 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070831 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TJX COMPANIES INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000109198 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-FAMILY CLOTHING STORES [5651] IRS NUMBER: 042207613 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0127 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-04908 FILM NUMBER: 071093770 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 770 COCHITUATE RD CITY: FRAMINGHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 01701 BUSINESS PHONE: 508-390-2662 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 770 COCHITUATE ROAD CITY: FRAMINGHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 01701 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ZAYRE CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19890625 8-K 1 b66756tje8vk.htm THE TJX COMPANIES e8vk
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):  August 24, 2007
 
THE TJX COMPANIES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
         
DELAWARE   1-4908   04-2207613
         
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation) 		  (Commission File
Number) 		  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
770 Cochituate Road, Framingham, MA 01701
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(508) 390-1000
Registrant’s Telephone Number (Including Area Code)
N/A
(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:
o   Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o   Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
 

 

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ITEM 8.01.     OTHER EVENTS.
SIGNATURES

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ITEM 8.01.     OTHER EVENTS.
On August 24, 2007 and August 27, 2007, certain executive officers of The TJX Companies, Inc. (“TJX”) entered into trading plans in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The executive officers who entered into trading plans are Arnold Barron, Senior Executive Vice President, Group President; Ernie Herrman, Senior Executive Vice President, The Marmaxx Group; Jerome Rossi, Senior Executive Vice President, Group President; and Paul Sweetenham, Senior Executive Vice President, Group President Europe. Options will be exercised and shares will be sold under the plans on the open market over the periods of time and according to the other parameters set forth under each executive officer’s plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows individuals when they are not in possession of material nonpublic information to adopt written, pre-arranged trading plans to sell securities under specified conditions.
Sales of shares by the executive officers pursuant to the trading plans will be in compliance with TJX’s stock ownership guidelines. Rule 10b5-1 trading plans are permitted under TJX’s insider trading policy, and transactions under the trading plans will be disclosed publicly through Form 144 and/or Form 4 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The information in this Form 8-K shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

 

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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.
         
  THE TJX COMPANIES, INC.
 		  
    /s/ Nimral K. Tripathy  
  Nirmal K. Tripathy,   
  Chief Financial Officer   
 
Dated:  August 31, 2007

 

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