---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-124563"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPK"
cik: "0001408075"
company_name: "GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T17:59:11.432009+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders remove supermajority voting; advisory proposal for annual director elections passes

## Summary
- Stockholders approved Charter amendment removing supermajority voting provisions (274,424,830 for, 267,207 against).
- Board amended Bylaws to remove supermajority vote requirement for stockholders to amend Bylaws.
- Advisory proposal to elect each director annually passed (263,704,045 for, 4,716,453 against).
- Directors elected: Laurie Brlas, Robert Hagemann, Alessandro Maselli; say-on-pay approved (262,701,471 for).
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor approved (288,274,218 for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-124563
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPK
- cik: 0001408075
- company_name: GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408075/000119312525124563/0001193125-25-124563-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408075/000119312525124563/d895381d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-124563.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO: Removed supermajority voting requirement for stockholders to amend the By-laws (effective 2025-05-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-21
  source text: the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) approved amendments to the Company’s By-laws (the “By-laws”), which became effective concurrently with the effectiveness of the Certificate of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The By-laws were amended and restated to remove the supermajority voting requirement for stockholders to amend the By-laws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408075/000119312525124563/0001193125-25-124563-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO: Removed supermajority voting provisions from the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (effective 2025-05-21).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-21
  source text: on May 21, 2025, the stockholders of Graphic Packaging Holding Company (the “Company”) at its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) approved amendments to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) to remove supermajority voting provisions in the Company’s Charter.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408075/000119312525124563/0001193125-25-124563-index.htm

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