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Background and Basis of Presentation | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Background and Basis of Presentation | 1. Background and Basis of Presentation The Company is a leading home and security products company with a portfolio of leading branded products used for residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, security applications and storage. References to “Home & Security,” “the Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries as a whole, unless the context otherwise requires. Separation On September 27, 2011, the board of directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (our “Former Parent”) approved the spin-off of Home & Security into an independent, publicly-traded company (the “Separation”). On October 3, 2011, the Separation was completed, with the stockholders of our Former Parent receiving one share of Home & Security common stock for each share of Former Parent common stock held on September 20, 2011. Immediately prior to the Separation, on October 3, 2011, Home & Security paid a dividend to our Former Parent in the amount of $500 million. In addition, the Company paid a dividend of $48.9 million to our Former Parent prior to the Separation on October 3, 2011 and made a payment of $6.0 million to our Former Parent on January 3, 2012. These two latter payments represented U.S. cash balances generated from August 26, 2011, the date of the conversion of the Company from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware corporation, through the date of the Separation. Following the Separation, our Former Parent changed its name to Beam Inc. and retained no ownership interest in Home & Security. On October 4, 2011, our common stock began trading “regular-way” on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FBHS”. Basis of Presentation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Home & Security and its majority-owned subsidiaries. The Company’s subsidiaries operate on a 52 or 53-week fiscal year. The consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K were derived principally from the consolidated financial statements of the Company. Prior to the Separation, the Company was a wholly-owned subsidiary of our Former Parent. Our financial statements for periods prior to the Separation were derived from the historical results of operations and historical basis of assets and liabilities, and include allocations of certain general corporate expenses of our Former Parent incurred directly by our Former Parent. These allocated expenses include costs associated with legal, finance, treasury, accounting, internal audit and general management services and are included in “Corporate” in the accompanying segment information. During the year ended December 31, 2011, these allocations totaled $23.4 million. The 2011 allocation is for nine months only (January 1, 2011 through the date of the Separation) because Home & Security became an independent company on October 3, 2011. Management believes that the assumptions and methodologies underlying the allocation of these general corporate expenses are reasonable. However, such expenses may not be indicative of the actual level of expense that would have been incurred by the Company if it had operated as a stand-alone company. The consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for periods prior to the Separation may not necessarily reflect the Company’s results of operations, financial condition and cash flows had the Company been a stand-alone company during the periods presented.

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