---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000050725-23-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GFF"
cik: "0000050725"
company_name: "GRIFFON CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T23:17:56.592905+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Griffon shareholders re-elect all eight directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditor

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with overwhelming support; no withhold votes above ~6%.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (39.7M for vs 7.8M against); annual frequency preferred (42.0M votes).
- Grant Thornton LLP ratified as independent auditor for fiscal 2023 (51.9M for, 0.5M against).
- Quorum represented 52.4M shares (91.7% of outstanding) at March 15, 2023 meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000050725-23-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GFF
- cik: 0000050725
- company_name: GRIFFON CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/0000050725-23-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/gff-20230315.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000050725-23-000033
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000050725-23-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  GRIFFON CORP shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2023 at the 2023-03-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-15
  source text: Item No. 4: The Shareholders ratified the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as Griffon’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2023, by the votes set forth below
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/0000050725-23-000033-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GRIFFON CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future say-on-pay votes at the 2023-03-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-15
  source text: Item No. 3: The Shareholders expressed their preference for the holding of an advisory vote on executive compensation on an annual basis, by the votes set forth below: One Year Two Years Three Years Abstain Broker Non-votes 42,011,915 100,087 5,762,093 155,702 4,396,987
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/0000050725-23-000033-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GRIFFON CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-03-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-15
  source text: Each of Travis W. Cocke, H. C. Charles Diao, Louis J. Grabowsky, Lacy M. Johnson, James W. Sight, Samanta Hegedus Stewart, Michelle L. Taylor and Cheryl L. Turnbull were elected to serve until Griffon’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, by the votes set forth below
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/0000050725-23-000033-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GRIFFON CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers at the 2023-03-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-15
  source text: Item No. 2: The Shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers as disclosed in Griffon’s Proxy Statement, by the votes set forth below
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000005072523000033/0000050725-23-000033-index.htm

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