---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000012208-25-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BIO"
cik: "0000012208"
company_name: "BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T05:42:54.815107+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bio-Rad shareholders elect directors, ratify KPMG, reject severance proposal

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected: Litherland, Pinkston (Class A); Edwards, Hinckley, A. Schwartz, N. Schwartz (Class B).
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor for FY2025 approved: 7,151,391 for, 51,910 against, 2,176 abstain.
- Stockholder proposal on executive severance approval failed: 923,215 for, 6,125,784 against, 3,277 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000012208-25-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BIO
- cik: 0000012208
- company_name: BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12208/000001220825000022/0000012208-25-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12208/000001220825000022/bio-20250422.htm

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