---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-061197"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BJ"
cik: "0001531152"
company_name: "BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T01:19:51.583640+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BJ's Wholesale Club shareholders approve officer exculpation, reject GHG proposal at annual meeting

## Summary
- All 10 director nominees elected with majority support; broker non-votes ~4.67M.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with ~93.7% of votes cast (113.8M for, 7.5M against).
- Ratification of PwC as auditor for FY2025 passed with ~94.6% of shares voted.
- Officer exculpation amendment approved with ~84.2% of votes cast; effective June 20, 2025.
- Shareholder proposal on GHG emissions reduction report rejected with ~69.6% against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-061197
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BJ
- cik: 0001531152
- company_name: BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531152/000110465925061197/0001104659-25-061197-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531152/000110465925061197/tm2518500d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-061197.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.: Approved and effected an officer exculpation amendment to the second amended and restated certificate of incorporation to permit exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-06-20).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-20
  source text: On June 20, 2025, the company filed a certificate of amendment to the charter (the “certificate of amendment”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect the officer exculpation amendment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531152/000110465925061197/0001104659-25-061197-index.htm

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