---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-041116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACU"
cik: "0000002098"
company_name: "ACME UNITED CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T03:00:57.266052+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acme United amends bylaws to permit remote and hybrid shareholder meetings

## Summary
- Board approved amendment to Article 2, Section 3 of Bylaws effective March 28, 2024.
- Shareholder meetings may be held in person, solely via remote communications, or hybrid.
- No changes to fiscal year or other material governance terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-041116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACU
- cik: 0000002098
- company_name: ACME UNITED CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-03T23:59:59+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/2098/000095017024041116/0000950170-24-041116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2098/000095017024041116/acu-20240328.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-041116.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ACME UNITED CORP: Amended Article 2, Section 3 of the Bylaws to permit meetings of shareholders to be held solely via remote communications or hybrid meetings (effective 2024-03-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-03-28
  source text: On March 28, 2024, the Board of Directors of Acme United Corporation (the “Company”) approved and adopted an amendment to the By-laws of the Company (the “By-laws”), effective on that date. The amendment amended Article 2, Section 3, “Place of Meetings,” of the By-laws to permit meetings of shareholders to be held, in addition to being held in person at a physical location, solely via remote communications or via a hybrid meeting as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2098/000095017024041116/0000950170-24-041116-index.htm

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