secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (IBM)
CIK:        0000051143
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-23-052975
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

IBM shareholders elect 12 directors, approve say-on-pay, reject all stockholder proposals
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- All 12 director nominees elected with 89-99% support; Andrew N. Liveris received lowest FOR vote at 77.1%.
- Ratification of PwC as auditor passed with 95.7% (677M FOR).
- Say-on-pay passed with 91.1% support; frequency vote set to annual (97.4% for 1 year).
- Stockholder proposal on independent chairman defeated with 74.1% AGAINST; lobbying report proposal narrowly rejected (51.9% AGAINST).
- Proposals on China ESG congruency and harassment report also defeated with 92.9% and 66.9% AGAINST respectively.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465923052975/0001104659-23-052975-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465923052975/tm2314052d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-052975

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