WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/7/1/20250000110471falseJuly 1, 202500001104712025-07-012025-07-01

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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 8, 2025 (July 1, 2025)

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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (616) 866-5500

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On July 1, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Cheryl Abel-Hodges and Jack Boyle as members of the Board, effective July 1, 2025. There were no arrangements between either of the new directors and other persons pursuant to which a new director was appointed as a director. There are no related-party transactions in which either of the new directors or any of their respective immediate family members has an interest that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. As independent members of the Board, each of the new directors will be entitled to receive the compensation paid to the Company’s non-employee directors other than the Chairman of the Board, as described most recently in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2025. Each of the new directors will also enter into an Indemnification Agreement with the Company in the form entered into by the Company’s other directors. The new directors have been appointed to the following Board committees: Ms. Abel-Hodges, the Audit Committee; and Mr. Boyle, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee.

A copy of the press release issued on July 8, 2025 by the Company announcing the foregoing is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is 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.