Shareholder proposals

2,290 proposals put to a vote by the owners of these companies, read from the filings the companies themselves made to the SEC. 187 of them won a majority of the votes cast.

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212 matching, showing 181 to 212.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal relating to policies on freedom of expression		40.6%	Failed
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal relating to sustainability and executive compensation		12.1%	Failed
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal entitled “Shareholder Proxy Access Amendments”		31.1%	Failed
2020	Amgen	The stockholder proposal to require an independent board chair	United Church Funds	35%	Failed
2020	American Tower	Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding the ownership threshold required to call a special meeting		43.1%	Failed
2020	American Tower	Consideration of a stockholder proposal to require periodic reports on political contributions and expenditures	John Chevedden	36.9%	Failed
2020	Altria	Shareholder Proposal - Report on the Company’s Underage Tobacco Prevention Policies		36.6%	Failed
2020	Altria	Shareholder Proposal - Disclosure of Lobbying Policies and Practices		31.2%	Failed
2020	AES Corporation	Non-binding Stockholder Proposal, to Adopt a By-Law to Subject Approval of any By-Law and Charter Amendments to a Stockholder Vote		17.5%	Failed
2020	Adobe Inc.	A stockholder proposal regarding median gender/racial pay equity		12.5%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to issue an annual Compensation Committee report on drug pricing, as follows		24.4%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to adopt a policy to require an independent chair, as follows		27.7%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to issue a lobbying report, as follows		29.7%	Failed
2020	3M	Proposal No.4 — The shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal on setting target amounts for CEO compensation.*		11.1%	Failed
2020	Yum! Brands	The shareholder proposal regarding issuance of annual reports on efforts to reduce deforestation		33.3%	Failed
2020	Starbucks Corporation	Shareholder Proposal Regarding EEO Policy Risk Report		1.5%	Failed
2020	Restaurant Brands International	Consider a shareholder proposal to develop a comprehensive policy on plastic pollution and sustainable packaging and issue a report to investors		9.4%	Failed
2020	Restaurant Brands International	Consider a shareholder proposal to report on Company’s minimum requirements and standards related to workforce practices		37.3%	Failed
2020	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding a report on sugar and public health was defeated	John Harrington	11.1%	Failed
2020	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal to reduce the ownership threshold to call special shareholder meetings was defeated		44.8%	Failed
2020	Mondelez International	Our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal to consider employee pay in setting chief executive officer pay, based on the following voting results		10%	Failed
2020	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal regarding allocation of corporate tax savings	Merck & Co	3.3%	Failed
2020	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal concerning shareholders right to act by written consent		42.1%	Failed
2020	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting the Board issue a report on sugar and public health	John Harrington	9.4%	Failed
2020	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting to change the thresholds to call special shareholders meetings		42.6%	Failed
2020	Loblaw Companies	Political Contributions Disclosure		32.3%	Failed
2020	Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings	The Company’s shareholders voted to approve a shareholder proposal asking the Board to amend the appropriate company governing documents to give shareholders of a combined ten percent or more of the Company’s common stock the power to call a special shareholder meeting		53.4%	Passed
2020	Kroger	Shareholder proposal to issue a report on human rights in operations and supply chain		44.7%	Failed
2020	Kroger	Shareholder proposal to issue a report assessing the environmental impacts of using unrecyclable packaging		38.4%	Failed
2020	Costco Wholesale Corporation	Shareholder Proposal regarding a director skills matrix and disclosure of board ideology		1.4%	Failed
2020	Bloomin' Brands	Stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal that the Board issue a report assessing how the Company could increase efforts to mitigate supply chain greenhouse gas emissions		26.5%	Failed
2020	Bloomin' Brands	The non-binding stockholder proposal that the Board take steps necessary to eliminate the classified Board structure		84.5%	Passed

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Support is the share of votes cast for and against, so abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted in it. A proposal shows who asked for it where we have been able to tie the vote to a campaign on record; blank means we have not, not that nobody filed it.