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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001020859-25-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UNFI"
cik: "0001020859"
company_name: "UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:51:21.633966+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# UNFI shareholders approve equity plan increase; company to resume share repurchases up to $138M

## Summary
- Shareholders approved 5th Amended 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, adding 1.5M shares.
- All 10 director nominees re-elected; say-on-pay approved with 46.7M votes for.
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor for FY2026 approved.
- Company expects to resume opportunistic share repurchases under existing $200M program with $138M remaining.
- Repurchases currently limited to $25M under term loan agreement until leverage ratio ≤ 3.00x.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001020859-25-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UNFI
- cik: 0001020859
- company_name: UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085925000072/0001020859-25-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020859/000102085925000072/unfi-20251216.htm

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