0001104659-14-018353.txt : 20140311 0001104659-14-018353.hdr.sgml : 20140311 20140311150318 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-14-018353 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140305 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20140311 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140311 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Activision Blizzard, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000718877 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 954803544 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-15839 FILM NUMBER: 14683941 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3100 OCEAN PARK BLVD CITY: SANTA MONICA STATE: CA ZIP: 90405 BUSINESS PHONE: 3102552000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3100 OCEAN PARK BLVD CITY: SANTA MONICA STATE: CA ZIP: 90405 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ACTIVISION INC /NY DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930114 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MEDIAGENIC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ACTIVISION INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19880829 8-K 1 a14-7813_18k.htm 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

March 5, 2014

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-15839

 

95-4803544

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

3100 Ocean Boulevard,
Santa Monica, CA

 

90405

(Address of Principal

Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(310) 255-2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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 obligations of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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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.

 

(e)  On March 5, 2014, the Compensation Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (the “Company”) authorized the payment of a cash bonus with respect to 2013 for Robert A. Kotick in an amount equal to 374% of his base salary, which base salary is $2.1 million.

 

The payment authorized was less than the maximum amount payable to Mr. Kotick in accordance with the terms of the award opportunity provided to him in March 2013 under the Company’s 2008 Incentive Plan, which, as was the case for all of the Company’s executive officers, was the maximum permitted under the 2008 Incentive Plan.  When authorized, the Committee expressed the intent to use negative discretion to reduce that amount.

 

Historically, in exercising its negative discretion in determining the amounts actually paid to an executive officer of the Company under the 2008 Incentive Plan, the Committee would use the formula established for the executive in accordance with the Company’s Corporate Annual Incentive Plan (the “CAIP”), which operates as a sub-plan to the 2008 Incentive Plan.  Had the Committee used that formula to reduce the amount of the bonus payable to Mr. Kotick for 2013, his bonus would have been equal to 219% of his base salary.

 

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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.

 

 

 

Activision Blizzard, Inc.

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Chris B. Walther

 

 

Chris B. Walther

 

 

Chief Legal Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: March 11, 2014

 

 

 

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