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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 11-K

(Mark One)
 
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
 
Period from inception (February 22, 2018) through December 31, 2018

OR
 
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
 
For the transition period from ____________ to ____________

Commission file number 001-09148

A.
Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:
THE BRINK’S COMPANY EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
 
B.
Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:

The Brink’s Company

P.O. Box 18100,

1801 Bayberry Court

Richmond, Virginia 23226-8100











THE BRINK’S COMPANY
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS
            
 
Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
 
Financial Statements:
 
Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2018
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits from inception (February 22, 2018) through December 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements
 
 
Signature
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
 





REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Compensation and Benefits Committee
The Brink’s Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets available for benefits of The Brink’s Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”) as of December 31, 2018, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the period from inception (February 22, 2018) through December 31, 2018, and the related notes to the financial statements (collectively, the financial statements). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2018, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the period from inception (February 22, 2018) through December 31, 2018, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Plan’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Plan in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
 
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Keiter
We have served as the Plan's auditor since 2019.
Glen Allen, Virginia
March 27, 2019


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THE BRINK’S COMPANY
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

STATEMENT OF NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

 
December 31, 2018
 
 
Assets:
 
Plan cash held by The Brink's Company
$
209,490

Receivable from participants
3,181

Total assets
$
212,671

 
 
Liabilities:
 
Payable to purchase shares
$
184,538

Payable to participants and other
28,133

Total liabilities
$
212,671

 
 
Net assets available for benefits
$


See accompanying Notes to financial statements.


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THE BRINK’S COMPANY
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

 
The period from inception (February 22, 2018) through December 31, 2018
 
 
Additions:
 
Participant contributions, net of withdrawals
$
264,817

Receivable from participants
3,181

Total additions
267,998

 
 
Deductions:
 
Cost of shares purchased
55,541

Payable to purchase shares
184,538

Payable to participants
27,919

Total deductions
267,998

 
 
Changes in net assets available for benefits

 
 
Net assets available for benefits:
 
Beginning of period

End of period
$


See accompanying Notes to financial statements.


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THE BRINK’S COMPANY EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Note 1 - The Plan and Accounting Principles

Accounting Principles
The financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

General
The Brink’s Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”) became effective on February 22, 2018. The Plan is intended to provide eligible employees of The Brink’s Company (the “Company”) and certain participating subsidiaries with an opportunity to purchase shares of common stock of the Company at a discount to market value. Consistent with Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (the “Code”) eligible employees are individuals who provide services on a full-time or part-time basis but not on a seasonal basis. The Plan is intended to qualify as an employee stock purchase plan under the Code and is therefore not subject to taxation.

Contributions
Plan participants (“Participants”) may make contributions to the Plan through payroll deductions (after-tax contributions of at least 1%, but not more than 10% of their salary, as defined in the Plan document) for the purpose of purchasing the Company’s common stock (“Shares”). Participant contributions are recorded in the period that the Participants’ payroll deductions are made. Participant contributions are not subject to vesting and thus are fully vested at all times.

Share Purchases
The Plan allows Participants to purchase Shares at 90% of the average price per Share over the thirty day period leading up to and including the last trading day of each offering period. However, in no event will the purchase price be less than 85% of the closing price per Share on the last trading day of each offering period. The initial offering period under the Plan began on September 1, 2018 and ended on September 30, 2018. The second offering period began on October 1, 2018 and ended on December 31, 2018. Beginning in 2019, the Plan will operate with separate consecutive three-month offering periods ending March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31, with offering dates of January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1, respectively. Shares are purchased in the subsequent period and they are distributed to each Participant’s account by the stock transfer agent.

Participants purchased 840 Shares through the Plan during the period beginning February 22, 2018 and ending December 31, 2018 at a purchase price of $66.12 per Share. The maximum number of Shares that will be offered under the Plan is 250,000. Under the Plan, there are 249,160 Shares reserved for future issuance as of December 31, 2018.

Withdrawals and Refunds
If a Participant elects to withdraw from the Plan at least thirty days before the last trading day of an offering period, or if a Participant’s employment has been terminated at least thirty days before the last trading day of an offering period, the Plan refunds any amounts withheld in that period, plus any carryover from the previous period, back to the Participant. All such amounts are included in Participant contributions, net of withdrawals, in the Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits.

A Participant's accumulated payroll deductions will be used to purchase the maximum allowable number of whole Shares that can be purchased with the amounts in the Participant's notional account. During the period beginning February 22, 2018 and ending December 31, 2018, the Plan allowed Participants to purchase a maximum of 50 Shares with contributions from each offering period. For the offering period that began on September 1, 2018 and ended on September 30, 2018, the Plan determined that all excess Participant contributions would be refunded to the Participants.

Beginning with the offering period that began on October 1, 2018 and ended on December 31, 2018, excess Participant contributions for Participants purchasing the maximum of 50 Shares with contributions from an offering period will be refunded to the Participants in the following offering period. For Participants purchasing less than the maximum allowable number of Shares with contributions from an offering period, the excess contributions will be carried forward to the next offering period and aggregated with future contributions for the purpose of purchasing Shares.

Receivable from Participants
Receivable from Participants primarily represents excess refunds provided to Participants in the final offering period of 2018. These excess refunds were returned to the Plan by the Participants in February 2019.








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Payable to Purchase Shares
Payable to Purchase Shares primarily represents cash contributed to the Plan in the offering period that began on October 1, 2018 and ended on December 31, 2018, that was used to purchase Shares in the following offering period. Participants purchased 3,031 Shares through the Plan in January 2019 at a purchase price of $58.88 per Share related to the final offering period of 2018. Payable to Purchase Shares also includes excess contributions from Participants purchasing less than the maximum allowable number of Shares with contributions from the final offering period of 2018. These excess contributions were carried forward to the next offering period and will be aggregated with future contributions for the purpose of purchasing Shares.

Payable to Participants and Other
Payable to Participants and Other primarily represents cash contributed to the Plan in amounts greater than the cost of the maximum number of Shares allowed to be purchased in an offering period. All such amounts will be refunded to Participants from the Plan in the following offering period and, as such, are not included in Net Assets Available for Benefits in the accompanying financial statements.

Limitations
Employees owning Shares or holding outstanding options to purchase Shares representing 5% or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of Shares are not permitted to subscribe for any Shares under the Plan. Under the Plan, no Participant may purchase more than 50 Shares during an offering period.

Additionally, Participants are prohibited from purchasing Shares through the Plan with an aggregate fair market value in excess of $25,000 in any one calendar year.

Administrative Expenses
All expenses for Plan administration are paid by the Company and are not reflected in the accompanying financial statements.

Termination
The Plan has a term of ten years from the effective date. Although it has not expressed an interest in doing so, the Company has the right under the Plan document to amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. If any offering period is terminated before its scheduled expiration as a result of Plan termination, all amounts that have not been used to purchase Shares will be returned to Participants as soon as administratively practicable.

Subsequent Events
The Plan has evaluated subsequent events for potential recognition and disclosure through March 27, 2019, the date the Plan's financial statements were issued. Management has determined that there are no subsequent events to be reported in the accompanying financial statements.


Note 2 - Plan Assets

The Plan’s cash is maintained by the Company on behalf of the Plan.


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SIGNATURE

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.

 
 
 
The Brink's Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan
 
 
 
 
Date:
March 27, 2019
 
/s/ Susan E. Docherty
 
 
 
By: Chair of the Compensation and Benefits Committee, Plan Administrator
 
 
 
 


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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
Description
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


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