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accession: "0000016732-23-000065"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPB"
cik: "0000016732"
company_name: "CAMPBELL'S Co"
filed_at: "2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T16:03:31.140118+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Campbell Soup amends By-Laws for universal proxy and stockholder meeting procedures

## Summary
- Requires stockholders to provide evidence of Rule 14a-19 compliance for director nominations.
- Mandates that soliciting stockholders use a proxy card color other than white.
- Establishes deadlines for updating stockholder proposals and nominations as of record date and before meeting.
- Includes other ministerial, clarifying, and conforming changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000016732-23-000065
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPB
- cik: 0000016732
- company_name: CAMPBELL'S Co
- filed_at: 2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16732/000001673223000065/0000016732-23-000065-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16732/000001673223000065/cpb-20230523.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016732-23-000065.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CAMPBELL'S Co: Amended and restated By-Laws to revise procedures for stockholder proposals and nominations, including Rule 14a-19 compliance, proxy card color requirement, and updated notice deadlines; plus ministerial changes (effective 2023-05-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-23
  source text: On May 23, 2023, the Board of Directors of Campbell Soup Company (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s By-Laws, effective immediately, to: • revise the procedures and requirements for a stockholder to propose business or make a nomination at a meeting of stockholders to, among other things, (i) require, in the case of solicitations in respect of director nominations, certain additional background information, disclosures and representations regarding the proposing stockholders, proposed nominees and other persons related to a stockholder’s solicitation of proxies, including a requirement that the stockholder provide the Company with reasonable evidence that the stockholder has met the applicable requirements of Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act, (ii) require that any stockholder soliciting proxies from other stockholders use a proxy card color other than white and (iii) establish deadlines for the stockholder proposing business or making a nomination at a meeting of stock
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16732/000001673223000065/0000016732-23-000065-index.htm

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