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accession: "0000109563-25-000098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIT"
cik: "0000109563"
company_name: "APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:25:43.665784+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Applied Industrial annual meeting elects three directors, approves say-on-pay and auditor

## Summary
- Mary Dean Hall, Joe A. Raver, Richard J. Simoncic elected as directors for three-year terms; each received over 28.5M votes for.
- Nonbinding say-on-pay for named executive officers approved: 31.4M for, 0.8M against, 77K abstain.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditors for FY2026 passed: 33.0M for, 1.4M against, 26K abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000109563-25-000098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIT
- cik: 0000109563
- company_name: APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-23T23:59:59+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/109563/000010956325000098/0000109563-25-000098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/109563/000010956325000098/ait-20251021.htm

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