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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-129201"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COR"
cik: "0001140859"
company_name: "Cencora, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T07:13:37.733901+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cencora amends bylaws to clarify director election standard (majority/plurality)

## Summary
- Board approved amended and restated bylaws effective Dec 26, 2023, with clarifying edits to director election standard.
- Directors elected by majority vote except in contested elections where plurality vote applies.
- Changes are procedural; no financial impact disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-129201
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COR
- cik: 0001140859
- company_name: Cencora, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140859/000110465923129201/0001104659-23-129201-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140859/000110465923129201/tm2333320d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Cencora, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to clarify standard for election of directors, specifying majority vote except in contested elections where plurality vote applies (effective 2023-12-26).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-26
  source text: On December 26, 2023 the Board of Directors of Cencora, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s bylaws (as amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective immediately, to provide clarifying edits with respect to the standard for the election of directors set forth in Section 2.09(b) of the Amended and Restated Bylaws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140859/000110465923129201/0001104659-23-129201-index.htm

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