NEWELL RUBBERMAID INC. $500,000,000 5.50% Notes Due 2013 $250,000,000 6.25% Notes Due 2018 Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • March 28th, 2008 • Newell Rubbermaid Inc • Plastics products, nec • New York
Newell Rubbermaid Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell, severally and not jointly, to the underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, the principal amount of its 5.50% Notes Due 2013 (the “2013 Securities”) and its 6.25% Notes Due 2018 identified in Schedule I hereto (the “2018 Securities” and, together with the 2013 Securities, the “Securities”), to be issued under the senior indenture (the “Indenture”) dated as of November 1, 1995, between Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (formerly Newell Co.) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, formerly The Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association)), as trustee (the “Trustee”), relating to senior debt securities. If the firm or firms listed in Schedule II hereto include only the firm or firms listed in Schedule I hereto, then the terms “Underwriters” and “Representatives,” as used herein, shall each
