Terminate the U.S. pension plan
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 11 Feb 2020
- Due
- 31 Dec 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“planned termination of the Company’s U.S. pension plan in the second half of 2020”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The 10-K filed 2021-02-17 says the U.S. pension plan was settled in October 2020, within the second half of 2020 deadline, after regulatory approval in April 2020.
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A Charles River Laboratories 10-K filed 2021-02-17
“In October 2020, we settled all remaining benefits directly with vested participants through either lump sum payouts or the purchase of a group annuity contract from a qualified insurance company to administer all future payments.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Charles River Laboratories 10-K filed 2022-02-16
“In January 2019, we commenced the process to terminate this plan and received regulatory approval in April 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.6% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (16 Feb 2021 to 19 Feb 2021). What this measures
Checked 10 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Project other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Terminate
- Deliverable
- U.S. pension plan termination
- Where
- U.S.
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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