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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001020859-23-000125"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UNFI"
cik: "0001020859"
company_name: "UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T09:39:34.552196+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# UNFI shareholders approve equity plan adding 3.7M shares and capping director comp at $800K

## Summary
- Third Amended 2020 Equity Incentive Plan approved: 34.0M for, 12.5M against; adds 3.7M shares.
- All 11 director nominees elected; highest vote count 46.1M (Loree), lowest 43.7M (Clark).
- Ratification of KPMG as auditor for FY2024 passed: 49.1M for, 2.1M against.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved 42.9M for; one-year frequency selected (42.7M for one year).
- Non-employee director total compensation capped at $800,000 per year under amended plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001020859-23-000125
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UNFI
- cik: 0001020859
- company_name: UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/unfi-20231219.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001020859-23-000125.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC shareholders approved Advisory approval of executive compensation.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the Company’s executive compensation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC shareholders approved Approval of Third Amended and Restated 2020 Equity Incentive Plan.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: The stockholders approved the Third Amended and Restated 2020 Equity Incentive Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC shareholders approved Election of Directors.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: The stockholders elected Lynn S. Blake, Gloria R. Boyland, Denise M. Clark, J. Alexander Miller Douglas, Daphne J. Dufresne, Michael S. Funk, James M. Loree, Shamim Mohammad, James L. Muehlbauer, James C. Pappas and Jack Stahl to serve as Directors until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future say-on-pay votes.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, One Year with regards to the frequency of future advisory approvals of the Company’s executive compensation (“Say-on-Pay”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC shareholders approved Ratification of selection of KPMG LLP as independent registered public accounting firm at the 2024-08-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-08-03
  source text: The stockholders approved the ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 3, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085923000125/0001020859-23-000125-index.htm

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