Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (SPB)
Appliance brands, pet supplies and garden controls. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 18, 2025. Ranked 18 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
30%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
35%
Employees, annual report
3,000
Leading staffing pattern
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now30%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202835%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 64%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
The filing states approximately 3,000 full-time employees worldwide at September 30, 2025 and counts nothing by segment, so Home and Personal Care is read as a brand company at durable goods wholesaling, Global Pet Supplies at animal food manufacturing and Home and Garden at basic chemicals by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 30% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 35% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 50% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,000 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the excerpt gives no count by country.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we have approximately 3,000 full-time employees worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 41% | Home and Personal Care, 41% of revenue, is small appliances and personal care products sold under owned and licensed brands and largely sourced, so its product, sales and marketing staff are read at durable goods wholesaling as a brand company, by description (c). |
| Animal Food Manufacturing | 39% | Global Pet Supplies, 39% of revenue, makes aquatics products and pet food and treats in its own plants, read at animal food manufacturing by description (c). |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 20% | Home and Garden, 20% of revenue, makes insect and weed controls and repellents, pesticide manufacturing read at the basic chemicals group by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,000 full-time employees worldwide at September 30, 2025, down from 11,000 in 2022 after the sale of its hardware and home improvement business; a U.S. Belonging and Inclusion Council; five corporate social responsibility priorities.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Ferguson plc (FERG, 35,000 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
- Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW, 22,230 employees)37% now, 44% by 2028
- WESCO International, Inc. (WCC, 21,000 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
- Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS, 15,700 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
- Avnet, Inc. (AVT, 15,040 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
- QXO, Inc. (QXO, 7,794 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
- Boise Cascade Company (BCC, 7,680 employees)28% now, 32% by 2028
- Watsco, Inc. (WSO, 7,050 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 3,000 | 2025-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 3,100 | 2024-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,100 | 2023-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 11,000 | 2022-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 12,100 | 2021-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 12,100 | 2020-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 13,000 | 2019-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 13,000 | 2018-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 16,800 | 2017-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 15,700 | 2016-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 15,500 | 2015-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 13,400 | 2014-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 13,500 | 2013-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 5,850 | 2012-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 5,900 | 2011-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 8 | 2011-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 8 | 2010-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 7 | 2009-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 7 | 2008-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 7 | 2007-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 7 | 2006-04-05 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 7 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7 | 2004-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 7 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 8 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 39 | 2001-04-02 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 175 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-08-30 | 350 | 1998-12-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-09-30 | 130 | 1997-12-19 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-09-30 | 118 | 1996-12-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-09-30 | 117 | 1995-12-21 | 10-K |
| 1994-09-30 | 120 | 1994-12-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts nothing by segment, so the split follows the three segments' revenue by description (c), with the appliance brands read as a wholesaler because their products are sourced.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- The count is of full-time employees; no part-time figure is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000109177-25-000043, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 35% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 3,000 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only); by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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