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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-071501"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWL"
cik: "0000814453"
company_name: "NEWELL BRANDS INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T11:41:59.937922+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Newell Brands shareholders approve 13M-share increase to 2022 Incentive Plan

## Summary
- Amendment to 2022 Incentive Plan approved with 336.5M For, 16.1M Against, 0.5M Abstain.
- Nine director nominees elected; all received >324M votes For each.
- Say-on-pay resolution passed: 297.9M For, 54.5M Against, 0.6M Abstain.
- Stockholder proposal on executive stock retention rejected: 113.0M For, 239.4M Against.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers ratified as auditor for FY2025 with 380.9M votes For.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-071501
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWL
- cik: 0000814453
- company_name: NEWELL BRANDS INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000095017025071501/0000950170-25-071501-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000095017025071501/nwl-20250508.htm

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