-----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, PZ5R2fDs/Lq9jbsEWDLebbyOq1av6i/2qPIfYDT8PVyb8wIkBY6EFbXIryH1YHcW LduSBMQoLnPXquFgA8nTow== 0000950123-10-088608.txt : 20100924 0000950123-10-088608.hdr.sgml : 20100924 20100924060038 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-10-088608 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100922 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20100924 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100924 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TOLL BROTHERS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000794170 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPERATIVE BUILDERS [1531] IRS NUMBER: 232416878 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09186 FILM NUMBER: 101087677 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 250 GIBRALTAR ROAD CITY: HORSHAM STATE: PA ZIP: 19044 BUSINESS PHONE: 2159388000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 250 GIBRALTAR ROAD CITY: HORSHAM STATE: PA ZIP: 19044 8-K 1 c06250e8vk.htm FORM 8-K Form 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

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 22, 2010

Toll Brothers, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Delaware   001-09186   23-2416878
(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)   (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer Identification No.)
     
250 Gibraltar Road, Horsham, PA
  19044
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (215) 938-8000
 
 
(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)

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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 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers, Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

The Board of Directors, at a meeting held on September 22, 2010, promoted Martin P. Connor, age 46, to the offices of Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Toll Brothers, Inc. (the “Company”). These positions had been held by Joel H. Rassman, who passed away on September 14, 2010 after a lengthy illness. Mr. Connor, who had been serving as Assistant Chief Financial Officer since December of 2008, is also a Senior Vice President of the Company. His employment and subsequent promotions were part of a succession planning process involving management and the Board of Directors.

Mr. Connor joined the Company as Vice President and Assistant Chief Financial Officer in December 2008 and was elected a Senior Vice President in December 2009. From June 2008 to December 2008, Mr. Connor was President of Marcon Advisors LLC, a finance and accounting consulting firm which he founded. From October 2006 to June 2008, Mr. Connor was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations for O’Neill Properties, a diversified commercial real estate developer in the Mid-Atlantic area. Prior to October 2006, he spent over 20 years at Ernst & Young LLP as an Audit and Advisory Business Services Partner, responsible for the real estate practice for Ernst & Young LLP in the Philadelphia marketplace. For the seven year period from 1998 to 2005, he served on the Toll Brothers, Inc. relationship.

A copy of the Company’s press release announcing Mr. Connor’s promotion is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Connor and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Connor was elected as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Mr. Connor does not have a family relationship with any of the officers or directors of the Company.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

The following Exhibits are filed as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K:

     
 
   
Exhibit No.
  Item
 
   
 
 
99.1
  Press Release of Toll Brothers, Inc. issued September 22, 2010

 

 

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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.

Dated: September 24, 2010

TOLL BROTHERS, INC.

By: Joseph R. Sicree                    
Joseph R. Sicree
Senior Vice President,
Chief Accounting Officer

 

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EX-99.1 2 c06250exv99w1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit 99.1

Exhibit 99.1

     
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010
  CONTACT: Frederick N. Cooper (215) 938-8312
fcooper@tollbrothersinc.com
Joseph R. Sicree (215) 938-8045
jsicree@tollbrothersinc.com

TOLL BROTHERS NAMES MARTIN CONNOR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Horsham, PA, September 22, 2010 — Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL)(www.tollbrothers.com), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced the appointment of Martin P. Connor as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective September 22, 2010. Mr. Connor, a Senior Vice President, joined the Company in late 2008 as its Assistant Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Joel H. Rassman, 65, who passed away on September 14, 2010 after an extended illness.

Beginning in 1986, Mr. Connor spent over 20 years at the accounting firm of Ernst & Young (“EY”), where he served large public real estate and insurance clients as an Audit and Advisory Business Services partner.  He ran EY’s Real Estate Practice in the Philadelphia area from 2001 to 2006 and for seven years, from 1998 to 2005, served as an audit partner on the Toll Brothers relationship. In this capacity, he had extensive involvement in Toll Brothers’ operations, accounting and tax systems, and advised senior management and the Company’s Board of Directors on various financial, accounting, tax and other related issues.  He assisted the Company with debt and equity offerings, its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the evaluation of complex accounting, due diligence and structuring matters related to various acquisitions and investments. After leaving EY in 2006, Mr. Connor served as the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations for a $4 billion, diversified commercial real estate development company in the Mid-Atlantic region, and also founded and operated a successful finance and accounting consulting practice. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a Certified Public Accountant.

Douglas C. Yearley, chief executive officer of Toll Brothers, Inc., stated, “Marty’s background, long history with the Company and intimate knowledge of our financial systems, management and Board of Directors will make this a seamless transition. We formally welcome him as Chief Financial Officer, a role for which he has been preparing for several years.

“When Joel Rassman, who served as Toll Brothers’ chief financial officer from 1984 until his death, learned of the seriousness of his illness two years ago, he immediately began to establish a plan and prepare the Company and Marty for this transition. We will be forever indebted to Joel for his selflessness in making sure that the Company’s finances will remain in excellent hands.”

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Robert I. Toll, executive chairman, stated: “On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express our confidence in and support for Marty in his new role as Chief Financial Officer. We also remember and honor Joel Rassman for the tremendous contributions he has made to our Company over the past twenty-five years and the development of what we believe is the strongest finance team in our industry. Marty’s ascension to the CFO position is a tribute to the strong mentoring relationship Joel had with Marty, a role Joel played for so many within our Company and throughout our industry.”

Toll Brothers, Inc. is the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes. The Company began business in 1967 and became a public company in 1986. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TOL”. The Company serves move-up, empty-nester, active-adult and second-home home buyers and operates in 20 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

Toll Brothers builds luxury single-family detached and attached home communities, master planned luxury residential resort-style golf communities and urban low-, mid- and high-rise communities, principally on land it develops and improves. The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development and land sale, golf course development and management, home security and landscape subsidiaries. The Company also operates its own lumber distribution, and house component assembly and manufacturing operations.

Toll Brothers, a FORTUNE 1000 Company, is honored to have won the three most coveted awards in the homebuilding industry: America’s Best Builder from the National Association of Home Builders, the National Housing Quality Award, and Builder of the Year. Toll Brothers was recently honored to receive the #1 ranking in Fortune Magazine’s 2010 World’s Most Admired Companies Survey among home building companies. Toll Brothers proudly supports the communities in which it builds; among other philanthropic pursuits, the Company sponsors the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, bringing opera to neighborhoods throughout the world. For more information, visit tollbrothers.com.

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