0000899243-16-017911.txt : 20160411 0000899243-16-017911.hdr.sgml : 20160411 20160411163214 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-16-017911 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160330 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160411 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160411 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000007431 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 230366390 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2500 COLUMBIA AVE CITY: LANCASTER STATE: PA ZIP: 17603 BUSINESS PHONE: 7173970611 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2500 COLUMBIA AVE CITY: LANCASTER STATE: PA ZIP: 17603 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ARMSTRONG CORK CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19800611 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Cookson David S CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001671165 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-02116 FILM NUMBER: 161565432 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2500 COLUMBIA AVE CITY: LANCASTER STATE: PA ZIP: 17603 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2016-03-30 0 0000007431 ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES INC AWI 0001671165 Cookson David S C/O ARMSTRONG FLOORING, INC. 2500 COLUMBIA AVENUE, P.O. BOX 3001 LANCASTER PA 17603 0 1 0 0 SVP, North America Common Stock 17938 D Restricted Stock Units Common Stock 3146 D Stock Options 53.87 2024-02-25 Common Stock 6747 D Stock Options 51.76 2023-02-20 Common Stock 6320 D Stock Options 43.21 2022-02-28 Common Stock 10867 D Each restricted stock unit represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock under the Issuer's 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The restricted stock units were granted to the Reporting Person on February 24, 2015 and will vest as follows: (1) 1,573 on the second anniversary of the grant, and (2) 1,573 on the third anniversary of the grant (contingent upon the Reporting Person's employment with the Issuer on the scheduled vesting date, except as provided for under the Issuer's 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan). The stock options were granted on February 25, 2014 and 4,498 have vested; the remaining 2,249 unvested stock options will vest and become exercisable on the third anniversary of the grant (contingent upon the Reporting Person's employment with the Issuer on the scheduled vesting date, except as provided for under the Issuer's 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan). The stock options were granted on February 20, 2013 and have vested. The stock options were granted on February 28, 2012 and have vested. See Exhibit 24 Power of Attorney /s/ Bryan Y.M. Tham, Attorney-in-Fact 2016-04-11 EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Mark A. Hershey and Bryan Y.M. Tham of Armstrong World
Industries, Inc. or any of them signing singly, and with full power of
substitution, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

        1.      prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the
                undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and
                Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments
                thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to
                obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make
                electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section
                16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or
                regulation of the SEC;

        2.      take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
                the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
                may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally
                required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the
                documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
                undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such
                form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
                attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's
                discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect unless
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 1st day of April, 2016.

                                        /s/ David Cookson
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                                        Name: David Cookson