mkc-20260519
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
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
| May 19, 2026 | ||
| McCormick & Co Inc. | ||
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Maryland | 001-14920 | 52-0408290 | ||||||
| (State or other jurisdiction | (Commission | (IRS Employer | ||||||
| of incorporation) | File Number) | Identification No.) | ||||||
| 24 Schilling Road | Suite 1 | |||||||
| Hunt Valley | Maryland | 21031 | ||||||
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |||||||
| Registrant's telephone number, including area code: | 410 | 771-7301 | ||||||
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||||||
| Common Stock | MKC-V | New York Stock Exchange | ||||||
| Common Stock Non-Voting | MKC | New York Stock Exchange | ||||||
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
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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.
Appointment of Cindy Hoots
On May 19, 2026, the Board of the McCormick & Company, Incorporated (the “Company”) appointed Cindy Hoots to the Board of the Company with effect from June 1, 2026, on which date she will become a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Ms. Hoots is the recently retired Chief Digital Officer and CIO of AstraZeneca PLC, and is a member of the Board of Directors, of Zoom Communications, Inc.
Ms. Hoots does not have any family relationships with any of the executive officers or directors of the Company. There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Hoots and any other persons pursuant to which Ms. Hoots was selected as a director. Ms. Hoots will participate in the compensation arrangements for non-executive directors described on pages 24 through 26 of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2026. There have been no transactions, nor are there any currently proposed transactions, to which the Company was or is to be a party and with which Ms. Hoots or any member of her immediate family had, or will have, a direct or indirect material interest.
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On May 26, 2026, the Company issued a press release titled “McCormick Appoints Cindy Hoots to Board of Directors.” A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit Number Description
| 99 | |||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document). | ||||
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.
| McCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED | |||||||||||
| May 26, 2026 | By: | /s/ Jeffery D. Schwartz | |||||||||
| Jeffery D. Schwartz | |||||||||||
| Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary | |||||||||||