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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231 matching, showing 181 to 231.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2021	Starbucks Corporation	Shareholder proposal regarding employee board representation		7.2%	Failed
2021	Pfizer Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding independent chair policy		37.3%	Failed
2021	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding a report on external public health costs was defeated	John Chevedden	12.2%	Failed
2021	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding a report on sugar and public health was defeated		13.6%	Failed
2021	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding the special shareholder meeting vote threshold was defeated		44%	Failed
2021	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		9.4%	Failed
2021	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal regarding access to COVID-19 products		33.6%	Failed
2021	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal concerning shareholders right to act by written consent		39.8%	Failed
2021	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent	John Chevedden	42.6%	Failed
2021	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting a report on antibiotics and public health costs	The Shareholder Commons	11.9%	Failed
2021	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting a report on sugar and public health	The Shareholder Commons	10.7%	Failed
2021	Loblaw Companies	Political Contributions Disclosure		31.3%	Failed
2021	Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings	The Company’s shareholders voted against the shareholder proposal seeking an amendment to the Company’s proxy access by-law to remove the aggregation limit		37.5%	Failed
2021	Dollar General Corporation	A shareholder proposal regarding shareholders’ ability to call special meetings of shareholders		53.2%	Passed
2021	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	The shareholder proposal to lower the ownership threshold for special shareholder meetings to 10%		32.6%	Failed
2021	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	The shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent		34.8%	Failed
2021	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	The shareholder proposal on the adoption of a Board policy that the Chairperson of the Board be an independent director		44.6%	Failed
2021	Bloomin' Brands	The non-binding stockholder proposal requesting that the Board issue a report outlining if and how the Company could increase efforts to reduce its total contribution to climate change		76.2%	Passed
2021	Bloomin' Brands	The non-binding stockholder proposal requesting that the Board take action to eliminate supermajority voting provisions from the Company’s Charter and bylaws		91.9%	Passed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on customer use of certain technologies		34.3%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting additional reporting on lobbying		34.9%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an additional reduction in threshold for calling special shareholder meetings		34.1%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on competition strategy and risk		33.7%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an alternative director candidate policy		17.5%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a diversity and equity audit report		44.2%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on packaging materials		35.5%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on promotion data		18%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting additional reporting on gender/racial pay		25.9%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a mandatory independent board chair policy		14.9%	Failed
2021	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on customer due diligence		35.3%	Failed
2021	Conagra Brands	A non-binding shareholder proposal seeking a shareholder right to act by written consent		85%	Passed
2021	Campbell Soup	A non-binding shareholder proposal requesting that Campbell adopt a policy, and amend its governing documents as necessary, to ensure that all shareholder meetings be held, either in whole or in part, through virtual means		23.1%	Failed
2021	Campbell Soup	A non-binding shareholder proposal requesting that the Board replace supermajority voting provisions in Campbell’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws with simple majority voting provisions	Kenneth Steiner	41.1%	Failed
2021	Tesla, Inc.	This stockholder proposal		25.8%	Failed
2021	Tesla, Inc.	This stockholder proposal		33.8%	Failed
2021	Tesla, Inc.	This stockholder proposal		46.4%	Failed
2021	Tesla, Inc.	This stockholder proposal		56.9%	Passed
2021	Tesla, Inc.	This stockholder proposal		54.7%	Passed
2021	Fox Corporation (Class B)	A stockholder proposal to disclose direct and indirect lobbying activities and expenditures did not pass and was voted upon as follows		43%	Failed
2021	Fox Corporation (Class A)	A stockholder proposal to disclose direct and indirect lobbying activities and expenditures did not pass and was voted upon as follows		43%	Failed
2021	FactSet	To consider a stockholder proposal on stockholder proxy access		33.1%	Failed
2021	eBay Inc.	The Company’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal regarding executive compensation		46.6%	Failed
2021	eBay Inc.	Proposal 5 – Stockholder Proposal Regarding Right to Act By Written Consent. The Company’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal regarding the right for stockholders to act by written consent. The voting results were as follows		10.1%	Failed
2021	Clorox	The Company’s shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal requesting non-management employees on director nominee candidate lists		6.6%	Failed
2021	Cisco	A stockholder proposal to have Cisco’s Board amend Cisco’s proxy access bylaw to remove the stockholder aggregation limit		40.5%	Failed
2021	Cintas	The shareholder proposal regarding a simple majority vote	John Chevedden	63.5%	Passed
2021	Cardinal Health	The shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal to adopt a policy that the Chairman of the Board be an independent director, and voted as follows	Kenneth Steiner	23.2%	Failed
2021	Automatic Data Processing	The stockholder proposal to prepare a report on workforce engagement in governance	NorthStar Asset Management	4.7%	Failed
2021	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to adopt a policy to require an independent chair, as follows		28.4%	Failed
2021	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to issue a lobbying report, as follows		36.1%	Failed
2021	Sysco Corporation	Proposal 4 – Stockholder proposal requesting that Sysco issue a report annually disclosing its greenhouse gas emissions targets	As You Sow	92.1%	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.