---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000708955-24-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FFBC"
cik: "0000708955"
company_name: "FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/"
filed_at: "2024-05-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T07:31:24.719966+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Financial Bancorp shareholders elect all 11 director nominees at annual meeting

## Summary
- All 11 nominees elected for one-year terms; each received >74M votes for vs <1.6M withheld.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as auditor for 2024: 84.65M for, 0.70M against, 0.13M abstain.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 73.35M for, 2.25M against, 0.26M abstain, 9.62M broker non-votes.
- Quorum of 85.48M shares (89.53% of eligible) present at May 28, 2024 meeting.
- Broker non-votes of ~9.62M shares on director election and say-on-pay proposals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000708955-24-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FFBC
- cik: 0000708955
- company_name: FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/
- filed_at: 2024-05-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895524000033/0000708955-24-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895524000033/ffbc-20240528.htm

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