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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000769520-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MIDD"
cik: "0000769520"
company_name: "MIDDLEBY Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T03:56:05.705029+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Middleby announces 2025 Annual Meeting results: all board nominees elected, advisory pay vote passes, auditor ratified

## Summary
- All 10 director nominees elected with majority support; no vote received less than 86% of votes cast.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 44.2M for, 2.4M against, 41.7K abstain.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditors for FY ending Jan 3, 2026: 48.2M for, 962.6K against.
- Approximately 49.1M shares voted out of 53.6M outstanding; broker non-votes on director and say-on-pay proposals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000769520-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MIDD
- cik: 0000769520
- company_name: MIDDLEBY Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000076952025000018/0000769520-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000076952025000018/midd-20250516.htm

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