SEC Form 4 · accession 0001181431-15-004759

CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO · CENT

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Director · 10% Owner

Period of report

Mar 16, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Mar 17, 2015 · 4:55 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000887733

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Class A Common Stock	Mar 16, 2015	M	115,000	$10.00	A	2,978,916	D
Class A Common Stock	Mar 16, 2015	F	112,843	$10.31	D	2,866,073	D
Class A Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	240,000	I	By Irrevocable Trusts

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Stock Option (right to buy)^F3	$10.00	Mar 16, 2015	M	115,000	D	—	Apr 15, 2015	Class A Common Stock	115,000	0	D

F1Shares withheld by the Issuer in payment of the aggregate option exercise price and withholding tax liability incurred upon the above-reported exercise of options. The amount of shares withheld is based on the respective average of the high and low sales price on the date of exercise.
F2These securities are owned directly by various family Irrevocable Trusts and indirectly by the Reporting Person and his spouse as co-trustees of the Irrevocable Trusts. The Reporting Person and his spouse, as co-trustees, have and share investment control over the securities held in each of the Irrevocable Trusts but disclaim beneficial ownership of the reported securities held by the Irrevocable Trusts except to the extent of his and his wife's pecuniary interest therein.
F3The option vested in five equal annual installments beginning April 14, 2010, of which 20,000 shares in the original grant expired based on the failure to satisfy certain annual performance targets.