0000899243-16-018660.txt : 20160427 0000899243-16-018660.hdr.sgml : 20160427 20160427181336 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-16-018660 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160422 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160427 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160427 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NEWELL BRANDS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000814453 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 363514169 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6655 PEACHTREE DUNWOODY ROAD CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30328 BUSINESS PHONE: 770-418-7000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6655 PEACHTREE DUNWOODY ROAD CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30328 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NEWELL RUBBERMAID INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990329 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NEWELL CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NEW NEWELL CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19870713 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FRANKLIN MARTIN E CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000940603 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09608 FILM NUMBER: 161596563 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 555 THEODORE FREMD AVE STREET 2: SUITE B-203 CITY: RYE STATE: NY ZIP: 10580 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2016-04-22 0 0000814453 NEWELL BRANDS INC NWL 0000940603 FRANKLIN MARTIN E C/O NEWELL BRANDS INC. 6655 PEACHTREE DUNWOODY ROAD ATLANTA GA 30328 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 4529415 D Common Stock 511511 D Represents restricted stock awards that shall become vested on the last day of any five consecutive trading day period during which the average closing price of Newell Brands common stock equals or exceeds $46.28 per share (provided that such vesting must occur, if at all, prior to December 31, 2020). Prior to vesting of the award, if the Company pays a dividend on its common stock, the reporting person will be entitled to receive, upon vesting of the award, an amount in cash equal in value to the dividends that the reporting person would have otherwise received at the time such dividend was paid to all other holders of Newell Brands common stock. Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ Michael R. Peterson, Attorney in Fact for Martin E. Franklin 2016-04-27 EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

                                                                      Exhibit 24

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Bradford R. Turner, Michael R. Peterson, Leah Lower, and Kathi
Lewis, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

        (1)     execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned
                's capacity as an officer and/or director of Newell Rubbermaid
                Inc. (the "Company"), Forms ID, 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with
                Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
                rules thereunder ;

        (2)     do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
                undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
                execute any such Form ID, 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any
                amendment or amendments thereto , and timely file such form with
                the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
                stock exchange or similar authority ; and

        (3)     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, nor is the Company 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 until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms ID, 3, 4, and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company , unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        The undersigned hereby revokes any Power of Attorney granted by the
undersigned prior to the date hereof to agents or employees of the Company with
respect to the matters set forth in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) above.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 22 day of April, 2016

                                            /s/ Martin E. Franklin
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                                        Print Name:      Martin E. Franklin
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