---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-060235"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARW"
cik: "0000007536"
company_name: "ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC."
filed_at: "2026-05-13T20:06:22+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-13T22:07:55.112565+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arrow shareholders approve governance changes, remove supermajority requirements; all directors elected

## Summary
- Shareholders approved removing supermajority voting provisions (46.1M for, 42.5K against) and overriding NYBCL supermajority default (46.1M for, 44.5K against).
- Board adopted amended bylaws reducing special meeting threshold to 25% ownership held for at least one year; procedures and limitations added.
- All eight director nominees elected; auditor Ernst & Young LLP ratified; advisory say-on-pay approved with 43.3M for, 2.8M against.
- Company proposal for special meeting at 25% threshold passed (33.8M for); shareholder proposal for 10% threshold failed (17.1M for, 29.1M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-060235
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARW
- cik: 0000007536
- company_name: ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-05-13T20:06:22+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7536/000110465926060235/0001104659-26-060235-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7536/000110465926060235/tm2614085d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-060235
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-060235.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-060235.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC.: Board adopted Amended and Restated By-laws with changes to special meeting procedures and other updates (effective 2026-05-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2026-05-12
  source text: on May 12, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Arrow approved and adopted Amended and Restated By-laws (the “Amended and Restated By-laws”), that became effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7536/000110465926060235/0001104659-26-060235-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC.: Approved amendments to Restated Certificate of Incorporation to remove supermajority voting provisions and override default supermajority requirements under New York Business Corporation Law (effective 2026-05-13).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2026-05-13
  source text: Arrow’s shareholders approved two proposals to amend and restate Arrow’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to (a) remove certain supermajority requirements contained therein and implement other clarifying and ministerial changes, and (b) override default supermajority requirements under the New York Business Corporation Law.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7536/000110465926060235/0001104659-26-060235-index.htm

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