-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, FG4yFGnykA8Z3pKziTzmPQuERfkOcp9voITyNOh2fxK5+gWmSwoLjr7S/z7x+iAL X7PZ0npSGwi6Iv9tkTJexA== 0001047469-98-045073.txt : 19981228 0001047469-98-045073.hdr.sgml : 19981228 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001047469-98-045073 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19981224 ITEM INFORMATION: FILED AS OF DATE: 19981224 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000764180 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FOOD & KINDRED PRODUCTS [2000] IRS NUMBER: 133260245 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K/A SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08940 FILM NUMBER: 98775601 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 120 PARK AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10017 BUSINESS PHONE: 9176635000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 120 PARK AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10017 8-K/A 1 8-K/A ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K/A AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) DECEMBER 24, 1998 PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) VIRGINIA 1-8940 13-3260245 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (State or other (Commission (IRS Employer jurisdiction File Number) Identification No.) of incorporation) 120 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017-5592 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Address of principal (Zip Code) executive offices) Registrant's telephone number, including area code (917) 663-5000 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Former name or former address, if changed since last report) ================================================================================ ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS On November 25, 1998, Philip Morris Companies Inc. (the "Company") filed a Current Report on Form 8-K, dated November 23, 1998 (the "November 8-K"), which discussed an agreement to settle the asserted and unasserted health care cost recovery and certain other claims of 46 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas. The November 8-K contained an inadvertent error in the paragraph captioned "Public Disclosure." This Amendment is being filed solely to correct such error. The corrected paragraph should read as follows: "PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Until June 30, 2010, the original participating manufacturers will maintain their current Internet websites, which include documents produced in the Minnesota health care cost recovery action. They will add to the websites documents that were produced in the actions brought by the settling states and that are not subject to specified protection against disclosure, as well as other specified documents." -2- SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. BY /s/ G. PENN HOLSENBECK -------------------------------- Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Secretary Date: December 24, 1998 -3- -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----