---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000079879-25-000127"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PPG"
cik: "0000079879"
company_name: "PPG INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:39:27.739512+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PPG shareholders elect all 10 director nominees, approve say-on-pay and auditor ratification at 2025 meeting

## Summary
- All ten director nominees elected with votes for ranging from 162M to 181M; Guillermo Novo received lowest support at 162.1M for.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 169.8M for, 12.3M against, 0.58M abstain.
- Ratification of PwC as independent auditor for 2025 approved with 193.0M for, 2.9M against.
- Shareholder proposal on executive severance approval not passed (10.4M for, 171.6M against).
- As of record date, 226,974,896 shares of common stock issued and outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000079879-25-000127
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PPG
- cik: 0000079879
- company_name: PPG INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987925000127/0000079879-25-000127-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987925000127/ppg-20250417.htm

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