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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000829224-25-000046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBUX"
cik: "0000829224"
company_name: "STARBUCKS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T15:12:28.296869+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Starbucks amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules and update advance notice provisions

## Summary
- Effective June 25, 2025, Starbucks board amended and restated its Bylaws.
- Amendments incorporate SEC universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19) and update advance notice procedures for shareholder nominations and proposals.
- New requirement: shareholders soliciting proxies from others must use a proxy card color other than white.
- Additional technical, conforming, modernizing, and clarifying changes were made.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000829224-25-000046
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBUX
- cik: 0000829224
- company_name: STARBUCKS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000046/0000829224-25-000046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000046/sbux-20250625.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000829224-25-000046.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  STARBUCKS CORP: Amended and restated Bylaws to address universal proxy rules, update advance notice provisions, require non-white proxy card for shareholder solicitors, and make technical changes (effective 2025-06-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-25
  source text: Effective as of June 25, 2025, the board of directors of Starbucks Corporation (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”) to, among other things: • Address the universal proxy rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 14a-19 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934; • Make certain limited updates to the procedures and disclosure requirements for director nominations made, and business proposals submitted, by shareholders under the Company’s advance notice provisions; • Require that a shareholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other shareholders use a proxy card color other than white; and • Make certain other technical, conforming, modernizing, or clarifying changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000046/0000829224-25-000046-index.htm

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