Item 8.01 Other Events.

As reported on separate Forms 4 filed on December 28, 2012, Peter C. Wallace, President and Chief Executive Officer of Robbins & Myers, Inc. (the "Company"), Kevin J. Brown, Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Saeid Rahimian, Senior Vice President and President of the Energy Services Group of the Company, Aaron Ravenscroft, Vice President and President of the Process & Flow Control Group of the Company, Jeffrey L. Halsey, Vice President - Human Resources of the Company, and Richard J. Giromini, a director of the Company, exercised certain vested stock options, used common shares of the Company to pay the exercise price and certain withholding taxes incurred in connection with such option exercises, and/or sold common shares of the Company. These transactions were executed in connection with year-end tax planning and each individual has advised the Company that he currently does not intend to exercise additional vested stock options or sell additional common shares of the Company prior to the closing of the previously announced merger with National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

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