Investor Relations

Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires each company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose whether or not it has adopted a code of ethics for senior financial officers. In accordance with Section 406, Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (the "Company") has adopted this Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers (the "Code"). The purpose of the Code is: to promote the honest and ethical conduct of the Senior Financial Officers (as defined below), including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships; to promote full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable public disclosures by the Company; and to promote compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

To the best of their ability, the Senior Financial Officers shall:

• Act with honesty and integrity, avoiding actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships;
  
  
• Disclose to the General Counsel, the Chairman of the Audit Committee or the Vice President-General Auditor any material transaction or relationship that reasonably could be expected to give rise to such a conflict of interest;
  
  
• Provide full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that the Company files with, or submits to, the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other public communications made by the Company;
  
  
• Comply with applicable governmental laws, rules and regulations;
  
  
• Support, as appropriate, contact by employees with the General Counsel or the Audit Committee for any issues concerning the improper accounting or financial reporting of the Company without fear of retaliation; and
  
  
• Refrain from unduly or fraudulently influencing, coercing, manipulating or misleading any authorized audit and from interference with any auditor engaged in the performance of an internal or independent audit of the Company's financial statements or accounting books and records.
  
  

The Nominating/Governance Committee may consider and make recommendations to the Board of Directors with respect to possible waiver of provisions of this Code. However, the Board of Directors has the sole and absolute discretionary authority to approve any deviation or waiver from this Code. Any change in or waiver from, and the grounds for such change or waiver of this Code shall be promptly disclosed through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, or through any other permissible means of disclosure.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Code, you should seek guidance from the General Counsel, the Chairman of the Audit Committee or the Vice President-General Auditor.

If you know of or suspect a violation of applicable laws or regulations or of this Code, you must promptly report that information to the General Counsel, the Chairman of the Audit Committee or the Vice President-General Auditor. No one will be subject to retaliation because of a good faith report of a suspected violation.

This Code is a statement of certain fundamental principles, policies, and procedures that govern the Company's Senior Financial Officers in the conduct of the Company's business. It is not intended to and does not create any rights in any employee, customer, supplier, competitor, stockholder or any other person or entity.