Separate Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret into two independent companies
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 19 May 2021
- Due
- 31 Aug 2021
- Delivered
- 2 Aug 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“the impending separation of the Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret businesses targeted to occur in August 2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company successfully completed the spin-off of its Victoria's Secret business into an independent, publicly traded company on August 2, 2021, meeting the August 2021 deadline.
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A Bath & Body Works, Inc. 10-K filed 2022-03-18
“On August 2, 2021, the company completed the spin-off of its Victoria's Secret business, which included the Victoria's Secret and PINK brands, into an independent publicly traded company” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +0.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (17 Mar 2022 to 22 Mar 2022). What this measures
Checked 20 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Separation
- Indicative materiality
- Transformational rules
- Action
- Separate
- Deliverable
- Separation of Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret
- Language
- Aspirational (“aims”, “intends”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Shareholder
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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