---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001144215-25-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AYI"
cik: "0001144215"
company_name: "ACUITY INC. (DE)"
filed_at: "2025-01-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T10:25:14.908166+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acuity Brands shareholders elect all nine director nominees, approve auditor and say-on-pay

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with votes for ranging from 23.7M to 26.1M; James Hance Jr. received most votes against (3.26M).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as fiscal 2025 auditor passed with 27.4M for, 1.4M against.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote approved: 26.1M for, 843,461 against.
- Stockholder proposal for director election resignation bylaw rejected: 5.8M for, 21.1M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001144215-25-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AYI
- cik: 0001144215
- company_name: ACUITY INC. (DE)
- filed_at: 2025-01-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144215/000114421525000013/0001144215-25-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144215/000114421525000013/ayi-20250122.htm

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