GENERAL INFORMATION | GENERAL INFORMATION Nature of Business Graphic Packaging Holding Company (“GPHC” and, together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) is committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference. The Company, a leading fiber-based consumer packaging provider, serves the world's most widely-recognized food, beverage, foodservice and other consumer products companies and brands. The Company operates on a global basis, is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and fiber-based foodservice products in the United States ("U.S.") and Europe, and holds leading market positions in coated-recycled paperboard ("CRB"), coated unbleached kraft paperboard ("CUK") and solid bleached sulfate paperboard ("SBS"). The Company’s customers include many of the world’s most widely recognized companies and brands with prominent market positions in beverage, food, foodservice, and other consumer products. The Company strives to provide its customers with innovative, fiber-based packaging solutions designed to deliver marketing and performance benefits at a competitive cost by capitalizing on its low-cost paperboard mills and global packaging network, its proprietary carton and packaging designs, and its commitment to quality, service, and environmental stewardship. The Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include all subsidiaries in which the Company has the ability to exercise direct or indirect control over operating and financial policies. Intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation. In the Company’s opinion, the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements contain all normal recurring adjustments necessary to state fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim periods. The Company’s year-end Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet data was derived from audited financial statements. The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X and do not include all the information required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements. Therefore, these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. In addition, the preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual amounts could differ from those estimates and changes in these estimates are recorded when known. Revenue Recognition The Company has two primary activities, manufacturing and the converting of paperboard for and into fiber-based consumer packaging, from which it generates revenue from contracts with customers. Revenue is disaggregated primarily by geography and type of activity as further explained in " Note 10 - Segment Information. " All reportable segments and the Australia and Pacific Rim operating segments recognize revenue under the same method, allocate transaction price using similar methods, and have similar economic factors impacting the uncertainty of revenue and related cash flows. Revenue is recognized on the Company's annual and multi-year supply contracts when the Company satisfies the performance obligation by transferring control over the product or service to a customer, which is generally based on shipping terms and passage of title under the point-in-time method of recognition. For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $2,428 million and $2,238 million, respectively, of revenue from contracts with customers. The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation consists of the stand-alone selling price, estimates of rebates and other sales or contract renewal incentives, and cash discounts and sales returns ("Variable Consideration") and excludes sales tax. Estimates are made for Variable Consideration based on contract terms and historical experience of actual results and are applied to the performance obligations as they are satisfied. Purchases by the Company’s principal customers are manufactured and shipped with minimal lead time, therefore performance obligations are generally satisfied shortly after manufacturing and shipment. The Company uses standard payment terms that are consistent with industry practice. The Company's contract assets consist primarily of contract renewal incentive payments to customers which are amortized over the period in which performance obligations related to the contract renewal are satisfied. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, contract assets were $7 million and $8 million, respectively. The Company's contract liabilities consist principally of rebates, and as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 were $61 million and $65 million, respectively. Accounts Receivable and Allowances Accounts receivable are stated at the amount owed by the customer, net of an allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts, returns and allowances, and cash discounts. The allowance for doubtful accounts is estimated based on historical experience, current economic conditions and the creditworthiness of customers. Receivables are charged to the allowance when determined to be no longer collectible. The Company has entered into agreements to sell, on a revolving basis, certain trade accounts receivable to third party financial institutions. Transfers under these agreements meet the requirements to be accounted for as sales in accordance with the Transfers and Servicing topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification (the "Codification"). The loss on sale is not material and is included in Other Expense (Income), Net on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The following table summarizes the activity under these programs for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively: Three Months Ended March 31, In millions 2023 2022 Receivables Sold and Derecognized $ 1,016 $ 737 Proceeds Collected on Behalf of Financial Institutions 917 681 Net Proceeds Received From Financial Institutions 48 64 Deferred Purchase Price at March 31 (a) 9 3 Pledged Receivables at March 31 193 201 (a) Included in Other Current Assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and represents a beneficial interest in the receivables sold to the financial institutions, which is a Level 3 fair value measure. Receivables sold under all programs subject to continuing involvement, which consists principally of collection services, were $819 million and $753 million as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. Share Repurchases and Dividends On February 20, 2023, the Company's board of directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share of common stock payable on April 5, 2023 to shareholders of record as of March 15, 2023. On January 28, 2019, the Company's board of directors authorized a share repurchase program to allow the Company to purchase up to $500 million of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions and Rule 10b5-1 plans (the "2019 share repurchase program"). As of March 31, 2023, the Company has $90 million available for additional repurchases under the 2019 share repurchase program. The following table presents the Company's share repurchases for the three months ended March 31, 2023: Amount repurchased in millions, except share and per share amounts Amount Repurchased Number of Shares Repurchased Average Price, per Share 2023 (a) $ 29 1,210,000 $ 24.04 (a) Includes 60,000 shares repurchased but not yet settled as of March 31, 2023. Business Combinations, Shutdown and Other Special Charges, and Exit Activities, Net The following table summarizes the transactions recorded in Business Combinations and Shutdown and Other Special Charges, Net in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations: Three Months Ended March 31, In millions 2023 2022 Charges Associated with Business Combinations (a) $ — $ 8 Exit Activities (b) 11 7 Charges Associated with a Divestiture (c) 4 — Total $ 15 $ 15 (a) These costs relate to the Americraft Carton, Inc., AR Packaging Group AB and Tama Paperboard, LLC acquisitions. (b) 2023 charges relate to the Company's closures of its three smaller CRB mills (see "Note 13 - Exit Activities" ). (c) Relates to the Company's planned divestiture of its Russian business (see "Note 14 - Impairment and Divestiture of Russian Business" ). 2023 On January 31, 2023, the Company completed the acquisition of Tama Paperboard, LLC ("Tama"), a CRB mill located in Tama, Iowa, from Greif Packaging LLC for approximately $100 million. The acquisition is reported within the Paperboard Mills reportable segment. The costs associated with this acquisition were less than $1 million and are included in Charges Associated with Business Combinations in the table above. For more information, see "Note 3 - Business Combinations." On February 7, 2023, the Company announced an approximately $1 billion investment in a new CRB mill in Waco, Texas. In conjunction with the completion of this project, the company currently expects to close three of its smaller CRB mills in order to strategically expand capacity while lowering costs. Charges associated with this project are included in Exit Activities in the table above. For more information, see "Note 13 - Exit Activities." 2022 In March 2022, the Company announced its decision to close the Norwalk, Ohio packaging facility and closed the facility in September 2022. Severance charges associated with this project are included in Exit Activities in the table above. For more information, see "Note 13 - Exit Activities." Adoption of New Accounting Standards In September 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-04, Liabilities - Supplier Finance Programs (Subtopic 405-50): Disclosure of Supplier Finance Program Obligations , which is intended to enhance the transparency surrounding the use of supplier finance programs. Supplier finance programs may also be referred to as reverse factoring, payables finance, or structured payables arrangements. The amendments require a buyer that uses supplier finance programs to make annual disclosures about the program’s key terms, the balance sheet presentation of related amounts, the confirmed amount outstanding at the end of the period, and associated rollforward information. Only the amount outstanding at the end of the period must be disclosed in interim periods. The amendments are effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022 on a retrospective basis, including interim periods with those fiscal years, except for the requirement to disclose rollforward information, which is effective prospectively for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 and did not result in any changes in accounting principle upon transition. The impact to the Company’s overall financial position and results of operations is immaterial. In March 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-01, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Fair Value Hedging – Portfolio Layer Method . This ASU expands and clarifies the portfolio layer method for fair value hedges of interest rate risk. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 with no material impact on the Company's financial position and results of operations. In October 2021, the FASB issued ASU No. 2021-08, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Accounting for Acquired Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities . Under the new guidance, the acquirer should determine what contract assets and/or contract liabilities it would have recorded under ASC 606 as of the acquisition date, as if the acquirer had entered into the original contract at the same date and on the same terms as the acquiree. The recognition and measurement of those contract assets and contract liabilities will likely be comparable to what the acquiree has recorded on its books under ASC 606 as of the acquisition date. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 with no material impact on the Company's financial position and results of operations. In June 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-03, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions |