---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000899140-23-000566"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MLI"
cik: "0000089439"
company_name: "MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T15:17:48.461877+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mueller declares $0.30 quarterly dividend; annual meeting elects directors, ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Regular quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share declared, payable June 16, 2023 to shareholders of record June 2, 2023.
- All eight director nominees elected, including Gregory L. Christopher (47.7M for) and Elizabeth Donovan (30.5M for).
- Stockholders ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for fiscal 2023 with 51.1M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (41.4M for); board will hold future advisory votes on executive compensation annually.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000899140-23-000566
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MLI
- cik: 0000089439
- company_name: MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/0000899140-23-000566-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/m050823a.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-05-04 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-04
  source text: Proposal 2 - The Company's stockholders approved the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023: For Against Abstain 51,142,400 974,037 140,911
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/0000899140-23-000566-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-04 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-04
  source text: Proposal 1 - Election of directors; the following persons were duly elected to serve, subject to the Company's By-laws, as Directors of the Company until the next Annual Meeting, or until election and qualification of their successors: For Withheld Gregory L. Christopher 47,653,806 2,166,681 Elizabeth Donovan 30,518,549 19,301,938 William C. Drummond 49,288,567 531,920 Gary S. Gladstein 48,006,800 1,813,687 Scott J. Goldman 44,595,850 5,224,637 John B. Hansen 45,416,603 4,403,884 Terry Hermanson 41,353,754 8,466,733 Charles P. Herzog, Jr. 49,244,575 575,912
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/0000899140-23-000566-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation at the 2023-05-04 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-04
  source text: Proposal 4 – The Company’s stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the frequency of future advisory votes regarding the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers: 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years Abstain 46,906,065 144,838 2,732,429 37,155
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/0000899140-23-000566-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation of the named executive officers at the 2023-05-04 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-04
  source text: Proposal 3 - The Company's stockholders approved an advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 41,384,834 8,248,601 187,052 2,436,861
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000089914023000566/0000899140-23-000566-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.