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]]>Fortune Brands announced on February 12, 2026, that its Board of Directors has appointed Amit Banati as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 13, 2026. Amit will succeed Nicholas Fink, who will pursue a professional opportunity outside of the Company on April 1. Susan Kilsby, Chair of the Board, will serve as Executive Chair effective February 12, 2026, and take on the duties of the office of the CEO during the brief transition period, after which time she will return to her role as Non-executive Chair of the Board.
“Amit has a proven ability to drive results and bring strategic clarity, operational rigor, and a brand- and customer-first mindset,” said Kilsby. “Amit’s appointment is the result of a comprehensive succession planning process conducted by the Board. His experience as a Board member and Audit Committee chair, combined with his expertise in managing renowned brands and guiding complex organizations with discipline and precision, makes him highly qualified to lead Fortune Brands. We are confident that Amit will advance the Company’s strategic priorities and leverage Fortune Brands Advantage Capabilities to create outstanding opportunities for all stakeholders.”
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]]>Fortune Brands Innovations has been named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2026. This marks the seventh consecutive year the Company has been recognized on the list.
“Our efforts to elevate every life help us achieve accolades such as this recognition. I am proud to be part of a company that develops innovative solutions that turn spaces into havens, and that our brands are having a positive impact for our business, our communities and the environment,” said Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Fink.
This prestigious award is presented in collaboration with Statista, the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on December 3, 2025, and can be viewed on Newsweek’s website.
America’s Most Responsible Companies ranking focuses on a holistic view of corporate responsibility. The analysis is based on the quantitative data from more than 30 KPIs across environmental, social and corporate governance factors, as well as from an extensive survey conducted among U.S. residents.
Fortune Brands’ responsible approach to business focuses on ways to contribute to brand, innovation and channel leadership to help the Company create shareholder value. From the game-changing water savings opportunity of the Moen Flo Smart Water Monitor and Shutoff to the injury prevention potential of the Master Lock cLOTO solution, the Company’s brands are creating a positive impact. For more information on FBIN’s product offerings that benefit people and the planet, see the Company’s responsible products and digital products webpages.
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Recently, Fortune Brands Innovations CEO Nicholas Fink was a guest on CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime to talk about the state of the consumer, the impact we’re seeing in housing trends, tariffs, and more.
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]]>DEERFIELD, Ill.—Nov. 24, 2025— Master Lock, a globally recognized leader in security solutions and part of Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc., is partnering with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and the Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley to distribute Sentry Safe fireproof safes and highlight the importance of third-party fire safety classification.
On Saturday, November 22, local area residents received one of 500 donated fire- and water-resistant safes by attending the Shine LA event at Los Angeles Fire Department 77. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s office coordinated the event with the Boys and Girls Club of San Fernando Valley to help inform the public on ways to safeguard their most valuable items and memories in the event of a fire. Los Angeles area residents will have the opportunity to receive donated safes at additional events in the coming weeks.
“Hundreds of families received resilient safes for free through a new partnership with businesses and community organizations,” said Mayor Bass. “We appreciate Master Lock, Sentry Safe and the San Fernando Valley Boys and Girls Club for partnering with the LAFD and my office to bring emergency preparedness resources to Los Angeles households. Take a moment today to talk with your family about your household plan.”
“We at Master Lock and Sentry Safe are grateful for the opportunity to do our small part to help Angelenos be prepared for the dangers and impact of household fires,” said Dave Barry, the president of security and connected products at Fortune Brands Innovations. “A verifiable fireproof safe—one that meets a reputable third-party classification— can help protect essential documents and irreplaceable keepsakes that would otherwise be destroyed in a fire.”
Residents of the La Tuna Canyon Valley and other nearby communities received the Sentry Safe Digital Fire/Water Safe, model SFW123FTC, or Sentry Safe Alarm Fire/Water Safe, model SFW123TSC. Sentry Safe fireproof safes are tested to the industry best-in-class UL-72 Class 350 standard in order to keep valuables protected.
Not all ‘fire-safe’ safes are tested to the same standards. A product may claim to be fireproof, but there is a significant difference between being fireproof for 10 minutes at 600°F and fireproof for one hour at 1700°F. Consumers need to look for third-party classification labels from Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to know they’re getting performance they can trust.
Sentry Safe has a large selection of fireproof and waterproof safes, which can be viewed and purchased at the Sentry Safe website, or at many online and in-store retailers. These safes bear the third-party UL Classification and ETL Verification marks that consumers should look for when selecting a fireproof and waterproof safe.
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]]>When Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN) opened the doors to its new Deerfield, Ill. headquarters this October, it was more than just a move – it was a milestone. For the first time, all FBIN’s U.S.-based brand teams – from Moen and Master Lock to Therma-Tru, House of Rohl, and Fiberon – are together under one roof.
Beyond its function as a place for FBIN associates to hang their hat, the new campus is a tool for transformation, designed to unify brands, accelerate innovation and strengthen company culture.
“There’s really nothing that replaces the physical nature of connection,” said Mark-Hans Richer, FBIN’s Chief Marketing Officer. “We learned a lot about working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we also learned about what we lose when we don’t have those in-person connections as well. The new headquarters was the next step in regaining that and moving forward together.”
Designing for unity, focus and collaboration
FBIN’s new headquarters was designed to balance two ideas, unity and individuality, that could, feel at odds in a less-considered space. The goal was to create a single home that reflects FBIN as a cohesive enterprise and a family of distinct brands with their own culture and independent goals.
To make that happen, each brand has its own dedicated floor with spaces that tell the story of its history and innovation. Additionally, the entire campus follows a unified visual language, rooted in FBIN’s core culture. Conference rooms across the building are named after company values such as “Hard Call” and “Elevate,” which reinforce shared culture and purpose.
From the start, the new headquarters was designed with intentional intersections on every level of the property to make collaboration inevitable. The most visible of these are the monumental spiral staircase hubs that physically connect the floors across the campus. Each hub serves as a resource zone supporting three distinct modes of work:
FBIN’s design partners at Gensler call this system a “kit of parts,” or modular components that can be reconfigured easily and create variety and adaptability as teams evolve.
Putting innovation on display
The visitors’ lobby at the new campus clearly identifies FBIN as a maker of products and champion of ideas. The Industrial Design Workspace, a glass-walled studio where new product concepts are actively developed, sits in the reception area providing a full display of FBIN’s innovation for guests.
The Global Design Workroom is a cross-brand makerspace where teams can prototype everything from faucets to locks and outdoor materials. The space is not only functional, it showcases FBIN’s “design in motion” mission – serving as a physical embodiment of the company’s innovative culture.
Throughout the building, subtle geometry and color cues drawn from the FBIN Blueprint tie the space together, while curated artifacts, like the historic Master Lock lion head from the 1933 World’s Fair, connect employees to the company’s rich history of craftsmanship.
Art plays a meaningful role in the design of the campus as well. Two “Elevate” sculptures, commissioned for the grand staircases, reflect FBIN’s upward momentum. When looking from below, they appear just as abstract forms, but from the top of the staircase landing, the Fortune Brands logo reveals itself – a hidden Easter egg that symbolizes the company’s creativity, curiosity and ongoing evolution.
Hybrid by design, built for flexibility
The new headquarters brings people together physically, but it was also purpose-built for hybrid work. FBIN’s synchronized hybrid cadence, which brings employees to the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and allows them to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays, minimizes the friction of half-remote meetings. In fact, hybrid functionality was incorporated directly into the headquarters’ spatial design, with each floor integrating mobile and fixed digital boards, high-quality telepresence in conference rooms, and hoteling zones at the end of every floor for visiting teams or cross-brand sprints.
The existing campus infrastructure made the technology integration seamless.
“The building already had a strong tech backbone, so we didn’t have to retrofit much,” Richer said. “The video cameras, remote equipment and conferencing systems worked beautifully.”
Every floor plan also supports adaptability: offices can transform into huddle rooms and hub components can be swapped out to support more tech-enabled or analog work as needed.
“If we didn’t have that flexibility, it would be a lot harder to work together,” Richer said. “The space needs to enable the behaviors we’re looking for.”
Amenities are the frosting, culture is the cake
The Deerfield campus offers many on-site perks, such as a fitness center, cafe, conferencing center, daycare, bowling alley, and pickleball courts, but Richer says those amenities are simply bonuses, the proverbial “frosting on the cake.”
“It’s the cake that matters,” he explained. “It’s the day-to-day ease of bumping into colleagues, getting a coffee and solving problems together. That fluid process creates the energy.”
“The space is a living prototype” added Richer. “We plan to keep swapping parts, converting rooms, and expanding what works.”
Purpose-built for evolution
Every detail of the new space was designed to help associates connect, collaborate and co-create the company’s next chapter together.
“We didn’t want a cold, corporate space,” said Richer. “We wanted something creative and collaborative that felt uniquely like our brands—and uniquely like us.”
As a result, the newly opened campus is truly an activated, engaging, and living space built to evolve alongside the company. It does more than just bring FBIN’s many teams together, it embodies the company’s transformation and its understanding of the fact that innovation thrives when people thrive.
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]]>Larson has been named Lowe’s 2025 Vendor of the Year in the Millwork division! This honor highlights Larson’s commitment to innovation and customer experience as seen in this year’s nationwide reset of the storm door aisle at Lowe’s, which has had impressive results.
“Our Fortune Brands team leveraged our brand, innovation and channel partnership expertise to completely reinvent the in-aisle experience for storm doors at Lowe’s. The results have been impressive; we’ve seen an immediate sales uplift from the converted stores. This award is a powerful testament to the strength and vision of Larson as a key part of the Fortune Brands portfolio. Using our powerful Fortune Brands Advantage capabilities, particularly in marketing and consumer insights, as well as our relationship with Lowe’s, we transformed the storm door category – turning a routine purchase into an engaging, inspiring experience for shoppers.” – CEO Nicholas Fink
Congrats to the Larson team! Read more here.
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]]>Our team at New Bern, North Carolina reached a major safety milestone this September: 5 million hours worked with no lost time incidents.
“I want to give a huge thank you and congratulations to team New Bern for 5 million hours with no lost time incidents. That is an absolutely massive achievement! I couldn’t be prouder and you have demonstrated just how seriously you take safety in running one of the safest facilities in our industry.” – Nick Fink, CEO
Beyond frequent safety training, some of the ways the team in New Bern (and all our FBIN sites) stay focused on safety include initiating proactive Learning Teams (or similar approaches), which engage associates and encourage feedback to drive even safer outcomes, and the Critical Element Programs, which heighten awareness and mitigate risk on safety components like lockout tagout, electrical safety, physical security, and many more. At FBIN, we also share best practices across the organization, so when one team sees success, they’re encouraged to share that knowledge.
The team in New Bern is planning a celebration for later this Fall to mark the occasion. Congrats to our associates in New Bern for this safety achievement!
Home Safe is a key part of our approach to responsible business, where we are focused on both the safety of our associates as well as creating solutions to keep people safe and secure, such as our smart residential locks from Yale and our Master Lock cLOTO. Learn more in our latest ESG Report.
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Recently, Fortune Brands Innovations CEO Nicholas Fink and CNBC’s Jon Fortt talked tough challenges and opportunities that
FBIN are solving, as well as Nick’s origin story, Death Valley moment and core beliefs coming out of that.
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]]>In a recent Leaders Magazine feature, our CEO Nick Fink shared how his global and unconventional career path shaped his leadership and vision for Fortune Brands Innovations. From his early days in law to leading major business transformations, Nick’s journey reflects his passion for innovation, adaptability, and purpose-driven growth.
Since becoming CEO in 2020, he has guided Fortune Brands through the pandemic, led a digital transformation, rebranded the company to emphasize innovation and brand leadership, and spearheaded the recent move to our new state-of-the-art headquarters in Deerfield, which positions FBIN for accelerated long-term growth and innovation.
Learn more about Nick’s passion for our purpose — to Elevate Every Life by Transforming Spaces Into Havens — and the importance of being a “purpose-driven company” by reading the full Leaders Magazine interview here!
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DEERFIELD, Ill.—Sept. 30, 2025—Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: FBIN or “Fortune Brands”), an industry-leading home, security and digital products company whose purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens, has welcomed over 500 associates to its newly opened headquarters, including more than 400 new hires. The move and influx of talent to augment the Company’s existing strong team will position Fortune Brands for accelerated long-term growth and innovation.
“Bringing our people together at one state-of-the-art campus is attracting top talent and building momentum in the business,” said Fortune Brands CEO Nicholas Fink. “Exceptional individuals are joining us — people who recognize the magnitude of opportunity here and the personal growth it unlocks. With our teams’ added ability to instantly collaborate across brands and functions, decisions are faster, engagement is higher, and we are gaining speed. The flywheel is turning, and we’re just getting started.”
Since announcing plans for its new campus in January, Fortune Brands has hired more than 400 associates for the Deerfield site. The Company is two years ahead of its 2027 goal of adding 400 full-time positions in the Chicago area. The Company continues to hire and retains flexibility to adjust its pace of hiring as needed in light of evolving macro-economic conditions.
“Because we have been successful at very quickly bringing in world-class talent, we feel confident we now have the people in place, working with our existing strong team, to accelerate progress on key strategic priorities,” said Fortune Brands Chief Human Resources Officer Kristin Papesh.
The campus at 1 Horizon Way in Deerfield consists of three towers, two of which will be occupied by Fortune Brands, with the third remaining home to Amgen. FBIN associates have moved into one of the towers and will expand into the second tower early next year. By the end of 2027, Fortune Brands will have the capacity to support over 1,000 professional associates at its headquarters. This significant investment in the local community was incented with annual tax credits to be provided through the State of Illinois Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE) program.
To learn more, see the full press release here.
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