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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 11-K

 

 

(Mark One):

x	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended: December 31, 2012

OR

 

¨	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     

Commission file number 1-14187

 

 

 

A.	Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:

RPM International Inc. Union 401(k) Trust and Plan, as amended

 

B.	Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:

RPM International Inc.

2628 Pearl Road

P.O. Box 777

Medina, Ohio 44258

 

 

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.

UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

FINANCIAL

STATEMENTS

DECEMBER 31,

2012 AND 2011

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM			1-2
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits (Modified Cash Basis)			3
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits (Modified Cash Basis)			4
Notes to Financial Statements			5-12
Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)			13

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits (Modified Cash Basis)

 

		December 31, 2012				December 31, 2011
ASSETS
Investments, at fair value		$	5,044,941			$	4,586,119
Receivables
Notes receivable from participants			476,584				440,912
Employer’s contribution			10,147				14,748
Participants’ contributions			14,859				21,706
			501,590				477,366
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit responsive investment contracts			(36,412	)			(31,928	)
NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS		$	5,510,119			$	5,031,557

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits (Modified Cash Basis)

For The Year Ended December 31, 2012

 

Additions To Net Assets Attributed To:
Contributions
Participants		$	222,090
Employer			147,794			$	369,884
Investment Income
Interest and dividends			59,241
Unrealized loss on investments			260,070
Realized gain on sale of investments			166,279				485,590
Interest on notes receivable from participants							20,301
							875,775
Deductions from Net Assets Attributed To:
Benefits paid to participants			390,587
Administrative expenses			6,626				397,213
Net increase							478,562
Net Assets Available for Benefits:
Beginning of year							5,031,557
End of year						$	5,510,119

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

NOTE A - Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Accounting

The Plan’s policy is to prepare its financial statements on the modified cash basis of accounting. Contributions are recorded on the accrual basis, dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date, and other revenues are recognized when received rather than when earned. Certain expenses and purchases of assets are recognized when cash is disbursed rather than when the obligation is incurred.

Investment Valuation and Income Recognition

Investments are reported at fair value. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. See note C for discussion of fair value measurements.

Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on a trade-date basis. Interest income is recorded when received. Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

In accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the modified cash basis of accounting, the Plan has adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provisions for the Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans. FASB guidance requires that investment contracts held by a defined-contribution plan be reported at fair value. However, contract value is the relevant measurement attribute for that portion of the net assets available for benefits of a defined-contribution plan attributable to fully benefit-responsive investment contracts because contract value is the amount participants would receive if they were to initiate permitted transactions under the terms of the Plan. As required by GAAP and modified cash basis of accounting, the Statement of Net Assets Available for Plan Benefits presents the fair value of the investment in the common/collective trusts as well as the adjustment for the fully benefit-responsive investment contracts from fair value to contract value. The Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits is prepared on a contract value basis.

Notes Receivable from Participant Accounts

Notes receivable from participants are measured at their unpaid principal balance plus any accrued but unpaid interest. Delinquent participant loans are reclassified as distributions based upon the terms of the plan document.

Contributions

Contributions are recorded on an accrual basis.

Payment of Benefits

Benefits are recorded when paid.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE A - Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

 

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with the modified cash basis of accounting requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and changes therein, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

NOTE B - Description of the Plan

The following description of the Plan provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.

General

The Plan, adopted on February 1, 1997, is a defined contribution savings plan covering certain union employees at several wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries of RPM International Inc. (the Company). The plan is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended.

Eligibility

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in the Plan provided they have worked for the Company for a period of 3 months. Part-time employees are eligible to participate provided they have worked for the Company for a period of 12 months and have met certain hour requirements.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE B - Description of the Plan (continued)

 

Contributions

Participants may contribute up to 50% of pretax annual compensation. Participants who have attained age 50 before the end of the plan year are eligible to make catch-up contributions. Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified defined benefit or defined contribution plans. Participants direct the investment of their contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan. The Plan currently offers a variety of investment funds as investment options for participants. The Company matches, depending upon the collective bargaining agreement of each participating union, up to a maximum rate of 100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2% of employee deferrals. The matching Company contribution is invested in the same manner in which the participants invest their own contributions. Contributions are subject to certain limitations.

Participant Accounts

Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s contribution, the Company’s matching contribution and an allocation of Plan earnings and charged with an allocation of administrative expenses. Allocations are based on participant earnings or account balances, as defined. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant’s vested account.

Vesting

Vesting is immediate for contributions, both for employee and employer, and earnings thereon.

Notes Receivable from Participants

Participants may borrow from their fund accounts a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum equal to the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of their vested account balance. The loans are secured by the balance in the participant’s account and bear interest at rates that range from 4.25% to 10.25%. Principal and interest are paid ratably through payroll deductions.

Payment of Benefits

On termination of service due to death, disability, or retirement, a participant generally will receive a lump-sum amount equal to the value of the participant’s vested interest in his or her account. For termination of service or other reasons, a participant may receive the value of the vested interest in his or her account as a lump-sum distribution.

Plan Expenses

During 2012, certain administrative expenses and fees incurred in connection with the sale, purchase, and management of the assets of the investment funds were paid by the Plan.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE C - Fair Value Measurements

The Plan follows the provisions of Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures which defines fair value and provides guidance for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures does not require any new fair value measurements, but rather applies to all other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements.

Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures establishes a framework for measuring fair value. That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobserved inputs (Level 3 measurement). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below:

 

Level 1

Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Plan has the ability to access.

 

Level 2

Inputs to the valuation methodology include:

 

•

Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;

 

•

Quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets;

 

•

Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability;

 

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Inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

If the asset or liability has a specified (contractual term), the Level 2 inputs must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.

 

Level 3

Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurements.

The asset’s or liability’s fair value measurement level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Valuation techniques used need to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

Following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for assets measured at fair value.

Mutual Funds: Valued at the net asset value of shares held by the Plan at year-end.

RPM Common Stock Fund: Valued at net asset value of units held by the Plan at year-end.

Common/Collective Trusts: Valued at net asset value of units held by the Plan at year-end after adjustments to reflect all fund investments at fair value, including direct and indirect interests in fully benefit- responsive contracts, as reported in the audited financial statements of the fund.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE C - Fair Value Measurements (continued)

 

The methods described above may produce a fair value calculation that may not be indicative of net realizable value or reflective of future fair values. Furthermore, while the Plan believes its valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with other market participants, the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different fair value measurement at the reporting date.

The following table sets forth by level, within the fair value hierarchy, the Plan’s assets at fair value as of December 31, 2012 and 2011:

Assets at Fair Value as of December 31, 2012

 

		Level 1				Level 2				Level 3				Total
Mutual Funds
Balanced Funds		$	485,013			$	—			$	—			$	485,013
Index Funds			421,851				—				—				421,851
Growth Funds			1,242,270				—				—				1,242,270
Fixed Income Funds			—				633,410				—				633,410
International Funds			148,359				—				—				148,359
Other Funds (Target & Cash)			591,970				—				—				591,970
Total Mutual Funds			2,889,463				633,410				—				3,522,873
Common Collective Trusts
Stable Value Fund			—				1,291,923				—				1,291,923
RPM Common Stock Fund			—				230,145				—				230,145
Total Assets at Fair Value		$	2,889,463			$	2,155,478			$	—			$	5,044,941

Assets at Fair Value as of December 31, 2011

 

		Level 1				Level 2				Level 3				Total
Mutual Funds
Balanced Funds		$	436,565			$	—			$	—			$	436,565
Index Funds			373,693				—				—				373,693
Growth Funds			1,047,047				—				—				1,047,047
Fixed Income Funds			—				603,914				—				603,914
International Funds			122,498				—				—				122,498
Other Funds (Target & Cash)			521,264				—				—				521,264
Total Mutual Funds			2,501,067				603,914				—				3,104,981
Common Collective Trusts
Stable Value Fund			—				1,278,676				—				1,278,676
RPM Common Stock Fund			—				202,462				—				202,462
Total Assets at Fair Value		$	2,501,067			$	2,085,052			$	—			$	4,586,119

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE D – Investments

The following presents investments at December 31, 2012 and 2011 that represent 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets:

 

		2012				2011
Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund		$	1,291,923			$	1,278,676
PIMCO Total Return Fund			564,773				513,030
Janus Balanced Fund			485,013				436,565
Vanguard Instl Index Fund			421,851				373,693
Harbor Capital Appreciation Instl			331,298				N/A
Fidelity Contrafund			319,313				265,196
American Funds Growth Fund of America			N/A				271,124

During 2012, the American Funds Growth Fund of America was replaced by the Harbor Capital Appreciation Instl.

During 2012, the Plan’s investments (including gains and losses on investments bought and sold, as well as held during the year) appreciated in value by $426,349.

 

Registered investment companies and company common stock fund		$	400,476
Common/collective Trust			25,873
Total		$	426,349

NOTE E – Plan Termination

Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. Any unallocated assets of the Plan shall be allocated to participant accounts and distributed in such a manner as the Company may determine.

NOTE F – Income Tax Status

The Plan obtained its latest determination letter on October 14, 2010, in which the Internal Revenue Service stated that the Plan, as then designed, was in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code. The Plan has been amended since receiving the determination letter. However, the plan administrator and the plan’s tax counsel believe that the plan is currently designed and being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE F – Income Tax Status (continued)

 

Accounting principles require Plan management to evaluate tax positions taken by the Plan and recognize a tax liability (or asset) if the Plan has taken an uncertain position that more likely than not would not be sustained upon examination by the tax authorities. The Plan administrator has analyzed the tax positions taken by the Plan, and has concluded that as of December 31, 2012, there are no uncertain positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition of a liability (or asset) or disclosure in the financial statements. The Plan is subject to routine audits by taxing jurisdictions; however, there are currently no audits for any tax periods in progress. The Plan administrator believes it is no longer subject to income tax examinations for years prior to 2009.

NOTE G – Related Party Transactions

The Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund is a common trust fund managed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. is the trustee as defined by the Plan and, therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest transactions. Fees paid by the Plan to the trustee amounted to $6,626 for the year ended December 31, 2012.

In addition, at December 31, 2012, the Plan held shares of RPM International Inc. Common Stock Fund valued at $230,145. At December 31, 2011, the Plan held shares of RPM International Inc. Common Stock Fund valued at $202,462. Transactions involving this investment are allowable party-in-interest transactions under ERISA.

NOTE H – Risks and Uncertainties

The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market, and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statement of net assets available for benefits.

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements

 

NOTE I – Reconciliation to Form 5500

As discussed in the valuation of investments section of Note A, the financial statements report the value of the Plan’s stable value fund investment at contract value whereas the Form 5500 reports at fair value.

The following is a reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to the Form 5500 at December 31, 2012 and 2011:

 

		2012				2011
Net assets available for benefits per the financial statements		$	5,510,119			$	5,031,557
Adjustment from contract value to fair value for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts			36,412				31,928
Net assets per the Form 5500		$	5,546,531			$	5,063,485

The following is a reconciliation of income and appreciation per the financial statements to the Form 5500 for the year ended December 31, 2012:

 

Investment income and interest on notes receivable per the financial statements		$	505,891
Adjustment from contract value to fair value for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts			4,484
Investment income per the Form 5500		$	510,375

 

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RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. UNION 401(k) TRUST AND PLAN

EIN #02-0642224

PLAN NUMBER 007

SCHEDULE H, LINE 4i -

SCHEDULE OF ASSETS (HELD AT END OF YEAR)

DECEMBER 31, 2012

 

(a)		(b) Identity of issue, borrower, lessor, or similar party		(c) Description of investment including maturity date, rate of interest, collateral, par or maturity value		(e) Current value at December  31, 2012
*		Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund		Common/collective trusts		$	1,291,923
		Fidelity Contrafund		Registered investment company			319,313
		Neuberger & Berman Genesis Fund		Registered investment company			145,911
		ING Midcap Opportunities		Registered investment company			259,595
		American Washington Mutual Investors Fund		Registered investment company			138,812
		American Europacific Growth Fund		Registered investment company			87,216
		Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund		Registered investment company			61,143
		Janus Balanced Fund		Registered investment company			485,013
		PIMCO Total Return Fund		Registered investment company			564,773
		Fidelity Advisor Government Investment Fund		Registered investment company			68,638
		Harbor Capital Appreciation Instl		Registered investment company			331,298
*		RPM International Inc. Union Stock Fund		Company stock			230,145
		Vanguard Instl Index Fund		Registered investment company			421,851
		Vanguard Small Cap Index SIG		Registered investment company			47,340
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2010 Fund		Registered investment company			224,109
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2015 Fund		Registered investment company			83,189
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Fund		Registered investment company			47,209
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund		Registered investment company			11,956
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund		Registered investment company			135,583
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund		Registered investment company			87,852
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Fund		Registered investment company			1,555
		Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Fund		Registered investment company			517
		Total Investments				$	5,044,941
*		Notes receivable from participants		Loans (4.25% to 10.25%)		$	476,584

 

*	Denotes an allowable party in interest

 

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SIGNATURES

The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: June 26, 2013

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

23.1		Consent of SS&G Financial Services, Inc.