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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 10-K/A
(Amendment No. 1)
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019
 or
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 For the transition period from ______________ to ______________
Commission file number 1-1043

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Brunswick Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
 
36-0848180
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
26125 N. Riverwoods Blvd., Suite 500, Mettawa, IL 60045-3420
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
 
(847) 735-4700
 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Each Class
 
Trading Symbol(s)
 
Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common stock, par value $0.75 per share
 
BC
 
New York Stock Exchange
 
 
Chicago Stock Exchange
6.500% Senior Notes due 2048
 
BC-A
 
New York Stock Exchange
6.625% Senior Notes due 2049
 
BC-B
 
New York Stock Exchange
6.375% Senior Notes due 2049
 
BC-C
 
New York Stock Exchange
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes   No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
 
 
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o    

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes No

As of June 28, 2019, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the voting stock of the registrant held by non-affiliates was $3,906,175,936. Such number excludes stock beneficially owned by executive officers and directors. This does not constitute an admission that they are affiliates.

The number of shares of Common Stock ($0.75 par value) of the registrant outstanding as of February 12, 2020 was 79,470,343.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Part III of the Form 10-K incorporates by reference certain information that will be set forth in the Company's definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on May 6, 2020.





EXPLANATORY NOTE

Brunswick Corporation (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment No. 1”) to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (the “Original Filing ”), originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2020 (the “Original Filing Date”), solely to correct the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (included in the Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedule on pages 52-53 of the Original Filing) and the Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (filed as Exhibit 23.1 of the Original Filing), each of which inadvertently omitted the typeset signature of Deloitte & Touche LLP. The Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm included below and the Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP filed as an exhibit to this Amendment No. 1 include the omitted signatures.

Except as described above, no changes have been made to the Original Filing, and this Amendment No. 1 does not modify, amend or update any of the financial information or other information contained in the Original Filing. This Amendment No. 1 does not reflect events that may have occurred subsequent to the Original Filing Date.





BRUNSWICK CORPORATION

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Brunswick Corporation
Mettawa, Illinois
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Brunswick Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2019, and the related notes and the schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2019, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 18, 2020, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Power Products Trade Name Intangible Assets-Refer to Notes 1 and 11 to the financial statements
Critical Audit Matter Description
As of December 31, 2019, the carrying value of the Power Products trade name intangible assets was $111 million. Management assesses the recoverability of the Power Products trade name intangible assets at least annually by estimating the fair value of the trade name and comparing this fair value to the carrying value. The determination of the fair value requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions related to royalty rates, discount rates, and forecasts of future Power Products revenues.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit
We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s intangible assets impairment evaluation, including those over the determination of the fair value of the Power Products trade name, such as controls related to management’s forecasts of future Power Products revenues and selection of the royalty and discount rates.





We evaluated management’s ability to accurately forecast future Power Products revenues by comparing actual Power Products revenues to management’s historical forecasts.
We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s forecasts of future Power Products revenues by comparing management’s forecasts to:
Historical revenues.
Internal strategic forecasts presented to management and the Board of Directors.
Forecasted information included in Company press releases as well as in analyst and industry reports of the Company and selected companies in its peer group.
With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the reasonableness of the royalty and discount rates by:
Testing the source information underlying the determination of the royalty and discount rates and the mathematical accuracy of the calculation.
Developing a range of independent estimates and comparing those to the royalty and discount rates selected by management.

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Chicago, Illinois
February 18, 2020

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.






Item 15. Exhibits
Item 15 of the Original Filing is hereby amended solely to update the Exhibit Index with the corrected Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP and with the new certifications required pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The updated Exhibit Index is below.
Exhibit No.
Description
2.1
3.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated July 22, 1987, filed as Exhibit 19.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1987, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby incorporated by reference.

3.2
3.3
Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1995 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 1995, and hereby incorporated by reference.
3.4
4.1†
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
Indenture, dated as of March 15, 1987, between the Company and Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1987, and hereby incorporated by reference.
4.10
Officers' Certificate setting forth terms of the Company's $125,000,000 principal amount of 7 3/8% Debentures due September 1, 2023, filed as Exhibit 4.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1993 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 1994, and hereby incorporated by reference.
4.11
Form of the Company's $200,000,000 principal amount of 7 1/8% Notes due August 1, 2027, filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 21, 1997, and hereby incorporated by reference.
4.12
The Company's agreement to furnish additional debt instruments upon request by the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed as Exhibit 4.10 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1980, and hereby incorporated by reference.





10.1
10.2

10.3
10.4
10.5

10.6*

10.7*†
10.8*
10.9*
10.10*
10.11*
1997 Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors, filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1998, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 1998, and hereby incorporated by reference.
10.12*
10.13*
10.14*
10.15*





10.16*
10.17*
10.18*

10.19*

10.20*
10.21*
10.22*
10.23*
10.24*

10.25*
10.26*
10.27*
10.28*
10.29*
10.30*†
10.31*†
10.32*†





10.33*†
10.34*†
10.35*†
10.36*†
12.1†
21.1†
23.1
24.1†
31.1†
31.2†
31.3

31.4
32.1††
32.2††
101.INS
Inline XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
104.1
Cover Page Interactive Data File, formatted in Inline XBRL, is contained in Exhibit 101.

* Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement

† Filed as an exhibit to the Original Filing

†† Furnished as an exhibit to the Original Filing






SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
BRUNSWICK CORPORATION

March 20, 2020
By:
/S/ RANDALL S. ALTMAN
 
 
Randall S. Altman
 
 
Vice President and Controller