Item 8.01 | Other Information. |
On September 30, 2024, Campbell Soup Company (“Campbell” or the “Company”) priced an offering of $1,150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes, consisting of $800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of notes bearing interest at a fixed rate of 4.750% per annum, due March 23, 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of notes bearing interest at a fixed rate of 5.250% per annum, due October 13, 2054 (the “2054 Notes” and, together with the 2035 Notes, the “Notes”).
The Notes were offered and sold pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement dated September 30, 2024 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) among Campbell and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and UBS Securities LLC as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, under Campbell’s automatic shelf registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-274048) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 17, 2023. Campbell has filed with the SEC a prospectus supplement, dated September 30, 2024, together with the accompanying prospectus dated August 17, 2023, relating to the offering and sale of the Notes. The Notes were issued on October 2, 2024 pursuant to an indenture dated as of March 19, 2015 (the “Original Indenture”) by and between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (as successor in interest to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as retiring trustee), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 17, 2023 (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”) among the Company, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (as successor in interest to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as retiring trustee), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor trustee for any series of debt securities issued in the future.
The above description of the Underwriting Agreement and the Notes is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, the Indenture and the forms of Notes, each of which is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. The Underwriting Agreement, the Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, and the forms of the 2035 Notes and the 2054 Notes are attached to (or incorporated by reference as an exhibit to) this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 1.1, Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2, Exhibit 4.3.1 and Exhibit 4.3.2, respectively.