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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000834365-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLFS"
cik: "0000834365"
company_name: "BIOLIFE SOLUTIONS INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T11:00:24.433588+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BioLife Solutions annual meeting: two directors face >40% withhold votes

## Summary
- All seven director nominees re-elected; Ellingson and Goswami each received >40% withhold votes (19.8M and 17.5M withheld, respectively).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 38.4M for, 2.06M against, 84k abstain.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as auditor passed with 43.0M for, 11k against.
- Total shares outstanding 47.8M, with 43.1M represented at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000834365-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLFS
- cik: 0000834365
- company_name: BIOLIFE SOLUTIONS INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/834365/000083436525000018/0000834365-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/834365/000083436525000018/blfs-20250820.htm

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