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C.H.
Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement to deregister certain securities originally registered by the Company pursuant to its Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12, 2003 (Registration Statement No. 333-110396) (the “Prior Registration Statement”) with respect to shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.10 per share (the “Common Stock”), thereby registered for offer or sale pursuant to the Robinson Companies Retirement Plan (the “Plan”). The Prior Registration Statement registered
a total of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions. The Prior Registration Statement also registered an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the Plan.
Pursuant to the undertakings contained in the Prior Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered that remain unissued at the termination of the offering, the Company is filing this post-effective amendment to the Prior Registration Statement to deregister, and does hereby remove from registration, all shares of Common Stock and all Plan participation interests that had been registered under the Prior Registration Statement that remain unissued as of the date hereof.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Eden Prairie, State of Minnesota, on the 23rd day of June, 2020.
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment on behalf of the Company in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Eden Prairie, State of Minnesota, on the 23rd day of June, 2020.
