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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000874716-25-000085"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IDXX"
cik: "0000874716"
company_name: "IDEXX LABORATORIES INC /DE"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:43:33.823124+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IDEXX shareholders approve charter amendments removing supermajority, officer exculpation

## Summary
- Filed Certificate of Elimination for Series A Preferred Stock; preferred shares revert to undesignated status.
- Shareholders approved removal of supermajority voting provisions from the certificate of incorporation.
- Shareholders approved amendment allowing officer exculpation under Delaware law.
- Board amended bylaws to include exclusive forum provision for Delaware courts and update procedural rules.
- Elected Stuart Essig, Jonathan Mazelsky, M. Anne Szostak as Class III directors for terms until 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000874716-25-000085
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IDXX
- cik: 0000874716
- company_name: IDEXX LABORATORIES INC /DE
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874716/000087471625000085/0000874716-25-000085-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874716/000087471625000085/idxx-20250507.htm

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