---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-018899"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AOUT"
cik: "0001808997"
company_name: "American Outdoor Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-09-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T07:17:56.854336+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AOUT annual meeting: directors re-elected, declassification approved, supermajority elimination fails

## Summary
- Directors Wadecki and Gluchowski re-elected with ~8.1M votes for each; ratification of Grant Thornton LLP passed with 11.4M votes for.
- Amendment to eliminate supermajority voting requirements failed (8.2M for, needed 66.67% of outstanding shares); 3.2M broker non-votes excluded.
- Stockholder proposal to declassify Board of Directors passed with 8.2M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-018899
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AOUT
- cik: 0001808997
- company_name: American Outdoor Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-09-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808997/000095017022018899/0000950170-22-018899-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808997/000095017022018899/aout-20220922.htm

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