Cooper Companies layoffs, on the record
Every job cut, severance charge and restructuring Cooper Companies reported in its annual reports, 2023 to 2025, quoted from the filings.
Job cuts, severance and restructuring
Our summaryThe filing lists restructuring expenses as a risk tied to acquisitions, including costs to shut down locations or terminate employees, but reports no specific layoff or restructuring program.
Word for word“• expenses, including restructuring expenses, to shut down our own locations or terminate our employees; • application of and compliance with new and unfamiliar regulatory frameworks such as regulation applicable to our newly acquired fertility-related businesses; • failure to successfully obtain or maintain reimbursements under the third-party payor plans, including but not limited to governmental programs, due to complex reporting and payment obligations; • our ability to develop satisfactory working arrangements with our strategic partners in joint ventures or other affiliations; • a dilution of earnings per share; and • risks inherent in accounting allocations and the risk that we are required to record significant adjustments to the preliminary fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed within the measurement period.” 10-K for 2023
Our summaryIn November 2020, the company transferred certain intellectual property of CooperVision to a UK subsidiary as part of a group restructuring to establish headquarters operations in the UK.
Word for word“In November 2020, the Company completed an intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property and related assets of CooperVision to a UK subsidiary as part of a group restructuring to establish headquarters operations in the UK.” 10-K for 2023
Our summaryThe company recognized $35.0 million of termination benefits expense for its workforce optimization initiatives in fiscal 2025.
Word for word“We recognized termination benefits expense of $ 35.0 million associated with the workforce optimization initiatives in fiscal 2025.” 10-K for 2025
Our summaryConsolidated gross margin fell to 66% in fiscal 2025, partly because of severance costs from workforce optimization initiatives and asset write-offs.
Word for word“Gross Margin Consolidated gross margin decreased in fiscal 2025 to 66% compared to 67% in fiscal 2024, primarily driven by inventory and long-lived asset write-offs and severance costs related to workforce optimization initiatives.” 10-K for 2025
Cooper Companies has filed no restructuring notice (Form 8-K, Item 2.05) since 2016. Companies file one only for a cut they judge material, so many announced layoffs never appear as one. This page shows what the company reported to the SEC, not news reports or state layoff notices.
Read from Cooper Companies’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-12-05. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.