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accession: "0000950170-23-044580"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000877422"
company_name: "SpartanNash Co"
filed_at: "2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:49:18.431025+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SpartanNash amends bylaws to align with SEC universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Board unanimously adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws effective August 23, 2023.
- Enhances procedural mechanics for shareholder nominations and proposals, including Rule 14a-19 compliance.
- Clarifies Board powers to postpone, reschedule, or cancel shareholder meetings and regulate conduct.
- Allows shareholder meetings solely by remote communication under Michigan law.
- Provides for emergency bylaws during disasters or catastrophic events.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-044580
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000877422
- company_name: SpartanNash Co
- filed_at: 2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000095017023044580/0000950170-23-044580-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000095017023044580/sptn-20230823.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SpartanNash Co: Adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws effective immediately, updating procedural mechanics, disclosure requirements, and other governance provisions (effective 2023-08-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-23
  source text: On August 23, 2023, in connection with the new Securities and Exchange Commission rules regarding universal proxy cards and a periodic review of the bylaws of SpartanNash Company (the “Company”), the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) unanimously adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the bylaws, as so amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000095017023044580/0000950170-23-044580-index.htm

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