secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC (LECO)
CIK:        0000059527
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-117646
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Lincoln Electric reports 2022 annual meeting voting results; all proposals approved
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- All ten director nominees elected with at least 43.5M votes each; broker non-votes 4.5M.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditors for FY2022 with 50.9M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 44.7M votes for, 2.4M against, 221.9K abstentions.
- Quorum of 88.4% (51.8M of 58.6M shares outstanding) represented at the meeting.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312522117646/0001193125-22-117646-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312522117646/d572476d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-117646

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