Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


          Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
          Officers.



On February 1, 2021, The Children's Place, Inc. (the "Company") announced that Robert F. Helm, Senior Vice President, Finance & Inventory Management, has been appointed Chief Financial Officer effective on April 1, 2021, and that Michael Scarpa, age 65, has decided to retire from the Company and will step down from his position as Chief Financial Officer on March 31, 2021.

Robert F. Helm, 41, joined the Company in 2016 as Vice President, Controller. Mr. Helm has taken on roles of increasing financial and accounting responsibility over the past few years, including being appointed Principal Accounting Officer in November 2018, and culminating in his appointment as Senior Vice President, Finance & Inventory Management in November 2019. In his current role, Mr. Helm oversees financial planning & analysis, financial reporting, accounting operations, tax, treasury, investor relations and inventory management. Mr. Helm will report to Jane Elfers, President and Chief Executive Officer.

In connection with his retirement, Mr. Scarpa and the Company entered into a letter agreement providing for, among other items, the vesting of common stock under outstanding equity awards, the payment of a bonus for fiscal 2020, and a release of claims.

A copy of the press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Helm and the retirement of Mr. Scarpa is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01 Financial Statement and Exhibits.






  (d) Exhibits


  Exhibit 99.1     Press Release dated February 1, 2021
Exhibit 104      Cover Pages Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are
                 embedded within the Inline XBRL document










Forward Looking Statements



This Current Report on Form 8-K, contains or may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to statements relating to the Company's strategic initiatives and adjusted net income per diluted share. Forward-looking statements typically are identified by use of terms such as "may," "will," "should," "plan," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate" and similar words, although some forward-looking statements are expressed differently. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Company's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and performance to differ materially. Some of these risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the "Risk Factors" section of its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2020 and supplemented by the "Risk Factors" sections of its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended May 2, 2020 and the fiscal quarter ended August 1, 2020. Included among the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and performance to differ materially are the risk that the Company will be unsuccessful in gauging fashion trends and changing consumer preferences, the risks resulting from the highly competitive nature of the Company's business and its dependence on consumer spending patterns, which may be affected by changes in economic conditions, the risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business or the economy in general (including decreased customer traffic, schools adopting remote and hybrid learning models, closures of businesses and other activities causing decreased demand for our products and negative impacts on our customers' spending patterns due to decreased income or actual or perceived wealth, and the impact of the CARES Act and other legislation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and any changes to the CARES Act or such other legislation), the risk that the Company's strategic initiatives to increase sales and margin are delayed or do not result in anticipated improvements, the risk of delays, interruptions and disruptions in the Company's global supply chain, including resulting from COVID-19 or other disease outbreaks, foreign sources of supply in less developed countries or more politically unstable countries, the risk that the cost of raw materials or energy prices will increase beyond current expectations or that the Company is unable to offset cost increases through value engineering or price increases, various types of litigation, including class action litigations brought under consumer protection, employment, and privacy and information security laws and regulations, the imposition of regulations affecting the importation of foreign-produced merchandise, including duties and tariffs, and the uncertainty of weather patterns. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they were made. The Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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.





Date: February 1, 2021



  THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, INC.


  By:    /s/ Jane Elfers
  Name:  Jane Elfers
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

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