---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-001937"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AZO"
cik: "0000866787"
company_name: "AUTOZONE INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T01:18:54.077371+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AutoZone amends bylaws to lower special meeting threshold from majority to 25%

## Summary
- Reduced required voting stock percentage to call a special meeting from a majority to 25%.
- Amendment effective immediately as of March 26, 2025, per Board approval.
- Other requirements for requesting stockholders under bylaw and applicable law remain unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-001937
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AZO
- cik: 0000866787
- company_name: AUTOZONE INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184325001937/0001171843-25-001937-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184325001937/f8k_040125.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-001937
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-001937.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-001937.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AUTOZONE INC: Reduced required percentage of voting stock to call a special meeting from a majority to 25% (effective 2025-03-26).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-03-26
  source text: On March 26, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of AutoZone, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted and approved amended and restated by-laws of the Company (the “Ninth Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective immediately, to reduce the required percentage of the Company’s issued and outstanding voting stock required to call a special meeting of shareholders from a majority to twenty-five percent (25%)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184325001937/0001171843-25-001937-index.htm

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