secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC (DRI)
CIK:        0000940944
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000940944-21-000056
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Darden shareholders elect all 8 director nominees and approve say-on-pay, KPMG ratification, and ESPP amendment
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- Elected directors: Atkins, Fogarty, Jamison, Lee, Mensah, Simon, Sonsteby, Wilmott; each received >98M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with ~101.8M for vs 5.9M against (94.5% support excluding broker non-votes).
- Ratification of KPMG as auditor for FY2022 passed with ~112.4M for vs 5.4M against (95.4% support).
- Amended Employee Stock Purchase Plan approved with ~107.3M for vs 0.4M against (99.7% support excluding broker non-votes).
- All votes were held at the September 22, 2021 annual meeting; inspector certified results on September 23.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094421000056/0000940944-21-000056-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094421000056/dri-20210922.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940944-21-000056

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