---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-015237"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VFC"
cik: "0000103379"
company_name: "V F CORP"
filed_at: "2023-01-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T09:04:04.999166+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# V.F. Corp amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules, update director nomination procedures

## Summary
- Board amended bylaws effective Jan 24, 2023 to address SEC Rule 14a-19 (universal proxy).
- Updated nomination procedural and information requirements, including outside date for shareholder submissions.
- Amended to conform with recent Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law changes and promote gender neutrality.
- Includes ministerial and conforming updates.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-015237
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VFC
- cik: 0000103379
- company_name: V F CORP
- filed_at: 2023-01-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103379/000119312523015237/0001193125-23-015237-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103379/000119312523015237/d421305d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-015237.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  V F CORP: Amended and restated By-Laws to address Rule 14a-19, update director nomination procedures, provide outside date for shareholder nominations, align with Pennsylvania law, and make ministerial updates (effective 2023-01-24).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-24
  source text: On January 24, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of V.F. Corporation (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (as amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective immediately. The amendments effected by the By-Laws: • address Rule 14a-19 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and include updates to the procedural and information requirements for the nomination of directors; • provide an outside date for the submission window for shareholders to nominate directors (other than pursuant to the proxy access provisions of the Company’s By-Laws); • reflect recent amendments to, and align certain provisions with, the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law; and • make various other updates, including ministerial and conforming changes, such as changes in furtherance of gender neutrality.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103379/000119312523015237/0001193125-23-015237-index.htm

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