5.02(b). Departure of Certain Officers.

Stephen N. Landsman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Univar Inc. (the “Company”) notified the Company on March 1, 2017, that he would resign his position, in order to accept a position with Syngenta AG as its head of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Landsman will continue in his role until May 2017 to assist in the transition of his replacement, who will be named at a later date.

About Univar Inc. (NYSE:UNVR)

Univar Inc. is a distributor of commodity and specialty chemicals. The Company’s segments include Univar USA (USA); Univar Canada (Canada); Univar Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Rest of World. The Rest of World segment includes developing businesses in Latin America, including Brazil and Mexico, and the Asia-Pacific region. Its USA segment offers commodity and specialty chemicals to manufacturing and industrial production sectors in the United States. Its Canadian operations are divided into approximately two regions: Eastern Canada, where it focuses on customer end markets, including cleaning and sanitization, chemical manufacturing, personal care and pharmaceutical, and Western Canada, where it focuses on forestry, chemical manufacturing, mining, and oil and gas markets, such as midstream gas and oil sands processing, as well as refining. Its EMEA segment caters to pharmaceutical products and ingredients, food, coating and adhesives, and personal care industries.

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Univar Inc. (NYSE:UNVR) closed its last trading session down -0.63 at 32.18 with 853,120 shares trading hands.