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

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):

April 18, 2013 (April 17, 2013)

 

Rite Aid Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

1-5742

 

23-1614034

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)

 

30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17011

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(717) 761-2633

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

(b)           On April 17, 2013, Michel Coutu, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Rite Aid Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company of his resignation, effective as of April 17, 2013, as required pursuant to the Amended and Restated Stockholder Agreement, dated August 23, 2006, amended and restated as of June 4, 2007, by and among Rite Aid, The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. and certain Coutu family members, following the sale of 72.5 million shares of Company common stock by Jean Coutu Group.

 

In addition, on April 17, 2013, Mary F. Sammons, a member of the Board of the Company, notified the Company of her intention not to stand for re-election as a Director at the Company’s 2013 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

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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.

 

 

RITE AID CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated: April 18, 2013

By:

/s/ Marc A. Strassler

 

 

Name:

Marc A. Strassler

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President,

 

 

 

General Counsel and Secretary

 

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