Item 8.01. Other Events.

Stock Option Expiration

On December 8, 2022, RH reported that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Friedman has informed the Company that he intends to sell some shares of common stock in order to pay taxes and the exercise price of options granted to him in July 2013. Mr. Friedman holds options representing 1.0 million shares of common stock that will expire in connection with the ten-year anniversary of their original grant date of July 2013. Mr. Friedman indicated that he intends to exercise these options prior to the expiration date and sell approximately 0.7 million shares of common stock and that the share sale proceeds will be used to fund taxes related to the option exercise and payment of the exercise price.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation, statements regarding Mr. Friedman's intention to exercise 1.0 million options that are set to expire at the ten-year anniversary of their original grant date of July 2013 and to sell approximately 0.7 million shares of our common stock in order to fund the option exercise price and satisfy the resulting tax obligations; expectations concerning the timing of such events or the price that Mr. Friedman might receive for such shares of common stock; the number of shares that may need to be sold in order to fund the exercise price and related tax obligations; and any statements or assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. You can identify forward looking statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements may include words such as "if," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "plan," "intend," "believe," "may," "will," "should," "likely" and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of the timing or nature of future events. We cannot assure you that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. Important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include, among others, risks related to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 virus including variants of such virus and any ongoing impact on our business related to the virus; risks related to natural disasters including earthquakes, fire and weather as well as other conditions outside of our control including outbreak of hostilities, war or civil; risks related to our dependence on key personnel and any changes in our ability to retain key personnel; successful implementation of our growth strategy; risks related to the number of new business initiatives we are undertaking; successful implementation of our growth strategy including our real estate transformation and the number of new Gallery locations that we seek to open and the timing of openings; uncertainties in the current performance of our business including a range of risks related to our operations as well as external economic factors; general economic conditions and the housing market as well as the impact of economic conditions on consumer confidence and spending; changes in customer demand for our products; our ability to anticipate consumer preferences and buying trends, and maintaining our brand promise to customers; decisions concerning the allocation of capital; factors affecting our outstanding convertible senior notes or other forms of our indebtedness; changes in consumer spending based on weather and other conditions beyond our control; strikes and work stoppages affecting port workers and other industries involved in the transportation of our products; our ability to obtain our products in a timely fashion or in the quantities required; our ability to employ reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect personal information that we collect; our ability to support our growth with appropriate information technology systems; risks related to our sourcing and supply chain including our dependence on imported products produced by foreign manufacturers and risks related to importation of such products including risks related to tariffs and other similar issues, as well as those risks and uncertainties disclosed under the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in RH's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC, which are available on our investor relations website at ir.rh.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this release speaks only as of the date on which we make it. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits.


Exhibit
  No.                                    Description

99.1        Press Release dated December 8, 2022 announcing the Chairman and CEO's
          plans to exercise expiring stock options and sell certain of the
          resulting shares.

104       Cover Page Interactive Data File--the cover page XBRL tags are embedded
          within the Inline XBRL document.

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