CSS Industries : SEC Filing (POS AM)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2020

Registration No. 333-156031

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-156031

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CSS INDUSTRIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		13-1920657
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

450 Plymouth Road, Suite 300

Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

[phone]

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

CSS Industries, Inc.

450 Plymouth Road, Suite 300

Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

[phone]

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. This post-effective amendment deregisters all of the securities that were unsold under the registration statement as of the date hereof.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (this 'Post-Effective Amendment') filed by CSS Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the 'Company'), deregisters all shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.10 per share, that remain unsold under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-156031) (the 'Registration Statement'), which was filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2008.

Effective March 3, 2020, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 20, 2020 (the 'Merger Agreement'), by and among the Company, IG Design Group Americas, Inc., a Georgia corporation ('Parent'), TOM MERGER SUB INC., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ('Merger Sub'), and IG Design Group Plc, a public limited company incorporated and registered in England and Wales, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving entity and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the 'Merger'). In connection with the completion of the Merger and related transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the offerings pursuant to the above-referenced Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the above-referenced Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this 4th day of March, 2020.

	CSS INDUSTRIES, INC.
	By:	/s/ Gideon Schlessinger
	Name:	Gideon Schlessinger
	Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer

*Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement.

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