secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NORDSON CORP (NDSN)
CIK:        0000072331
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000072331-23-000061
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Nordson shareholders reject proposal to eliminate supermajority voting; approve other governance changes
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- Proposal 5 to replace certain supermajority voting requirements with simple majority failed: 37.1M for, 11.9M against.
- Proposals 6, 7, 8 to adopt simple majority for other provisions and allow board to amend regulations passed.
- All four director nominees elected: Milton M. Morris, Michael J. Merriman Jr., Sundaram Nagarajan, Mary G. Puma.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor approved: 50.4M for, 2.1M against.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 46.7M for; frequency of say-on-pay set at 1 year with 47.9M for.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72331/000007233123000061/0000072331-23-000061-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72331/000007233123000061/ndsn-20230228.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072331-23-000061

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