secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ALTRIA GROUP, INC. (MO)
CIK:        0000764180
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000764180-23-000070
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Altria shareholders elect 12 directors, ratify PwC, approve say-on-pay, defeat two proposals
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- All 12 director nominees elected with votes ranging from 1.07B to 1.10B for; quorum 81.39% (1.454B shares).
- Ratification of PwC as FY2023 auditor passed with 1.403B for vs 45.7M against.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved with 1.041B for (93.3% of votes cast excluding abstentions).
- Advisory vote on frequency: 1.084B voted for '1 year' (the board's recommendation) vs 19.5M for 3 years.
- Two shareholder proposals (political spending report & civil rights equity audit) defeated with >760M against each.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764180/000076418023000070/0000764180-23-000070-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764180/000076418023000070/mo-20230518.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000764180-23-000070

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