AMERCO Announces Corporate Name Change, Non-Voting Common Stock Dividend and Other Actions Taken by the Board’s Independent Special Committee

October 24, 2022 Download

Reno, Nev. (October 24, 2022) – AMERCO (Nasdaq: UHAL), the parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, today announced that an Independent Special Committee of its Board of Directors has approved various actions, including a corporate name change and a 9-for-1 stock dividend of shares of a newly-created series of non-voting common stock of the Company.

“The committee set out to evaluate a variety of corporate actions aiming to attract and retain stockholders who align with the Company’s long-term outlook and to respond to input received from Company stockholders,” stated James J. Grogan, who was elected chair of the Independent Special Committee by his fellow committee members. “The actions we are directing are designed to enhance the marketability of the stock without consuming significant Company resources that should otherwise be deployed to provide a higher level of service to our customers and the do-it-yourself moving and self-storage public.”