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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01
TAP.A
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Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01
TAP
New York Stock Exchange
1.25% Senior Notes due 2024
TAP
New York Stock Exchange
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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.
On July 18, 2019, the board of directors of Molson Coors Brewing Company (the “Company”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Change in Control and Protection Program (as amended and restated and together with all exhibits and schedules attached thereto, the “Program”) in order to, among other things, (i) make enhancements to the Program for governance improvements including the elimination of legacy tax gross ups and related references in the Program, (ii) update exhibits, including the form of confidentiality and
noncompetition agreement and form of release; (iii) clarify the individuals eligible for the Program, including each member of the Company’s executive leadership team; and (iv) set participation and benefit levels for the Company’s executive officers. Following the amendment and restatement of the Program, no Program participants will have any remaining rights to tax gross up benefits.
The foregoing description of the material terms of the Program is qualified by reference to the Program, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated by reference herein.
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.
