---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950142-23-001800"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MOV"
cik: "0000072573"
company_name: "MOVADO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T18:36:03.489650+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Movado Group shareholders elect eight directors, approve executive compensation and stock plan at 2023 Annual Meeting

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected; votes for ranged from 71.3M to 77.1M.
- Ratification of PwC as auditor for FY2024: 78.5M for, 0.4M against.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 77.3M for, 0.7M against.
- Shareholders selected 'one year' as frequency of future advisory votes (76.6M votes).
- 1996 Stock Incentive Plan as amended approved with 70.1M for, 7.8M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950142-23-001800
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MOV
- cik: 0000072573
- company_name: MOVADO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/eh230373179_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-23-001800.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  MOVADO GROUP INC shareholders approved Approval of the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective April 4, 2023. at the 2023-06-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-23
  source text: Approval of the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective April 4, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MOVADO GROUP INC shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2024. at the 2023-06-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-23
  source text: Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MOVADO GROUP INC shareholders approved Selection, on an advisory basis, of the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation as disclosed in the Proxy Statement for the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. at the 2023-06-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-23
  source text: Selection, on an advisory basis, of the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation as disclosed in the Proxy Statement for the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MOVADO GROUP INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-06-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-23
  source text: Each of the eight nominees listed below was elected a director of the Company to hold office until the next annual meeting of the shareholders and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MOVADO GROUP INC shareholders approved Adoption, on an advisory basis, of a resolution approving the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as described in the Proxy Statement for the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders under the heading “Executive Compensation.” at the 2023-06-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-23
  source text: Adoption, on an advisory basis, of a resolution approving the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as described in the Proxy Statement for the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders under the heading “Executive Compensation.”
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72573/000095014223001800/0000950142-23-001800-index.htm

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