Item 5.04 Temporary Suspension of Trading Under Registrant's Employee Benefit
Plans.
Ingersoll-Rand plc (the "Company") is making changes to certain of its benefit
plans to convert a stock fund within those plans into two new stock funds. In
connection with these changes, on January 27, 2020, the Company sent a notice to
its directors and executive officers who are subject to Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, informing them of a blackout period
that begins at the close of market (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) on
February 27, 2020 and expected to end the week of March 1, 2020 (the "Blackout
Period") that is being imposed on participants in the Ingersoll-Rand Company
Employee Savings Plan, the Ingersoll-Rand Company Employee Savings Plan for
Bargained Employees, the Ingersoll-Rand Individual Account Retirement Plan for
Bargaining Unit Employees at the Buffalo, New York Plant, the Ingersoll-Rand
Retirement Savings Plan for Participating Affiliates in Puerto Rico, the Trane
401(k) and Thrift Plan and the Ingersoll Rand Industrial U.S., Inc. Employee
Savings Plan (collectively, the "Plans") and notifying them of the trading
restrictions applicable to them during this Blackout Period. During the Blackout
Period, participants and beneficiaries in the Plans will be unable to request
exchanges or obtain loans or receive distributions that involve Plan assets
invested in the Ingersoll-Rand Unitized Stock Fund.
During the Blackout Period and for a period of two years after the expiration of
the Blackout Period, executive officers and directors of the Company, and
security holders or other interested persons, may obtain, without charge,
information about this notice or about the actual beginning and ending dates of
the Blackout Period by contacting Evan M. Turtz at (704) 655-4000 or 800-E Beaty
Street, Davidson, North Carolina 28036.
This notice was sent pursuant to Section 306 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
and Regulation BTR, which generally prohibit executive officers and directors of
an issuer from engaging in transactions involving the issuer's equity securities
acquired in connection with their service or employment as director or executive
officer during any retirement plan blackout period.
A copy of the form of notice to directors and executive officers, which includes
the information specified in Rule 104(b) of Regulation BTR, is attached hereto
as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit Description
99.1 Form of Notice of Blackout Period to Directors and Executive
Officers, dated January 27, 2020.
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline
XBRL document)
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