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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-025637"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RMCF"
cik: "0001616262"
company_name: "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T21:10:03.223598+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory adopts amended bylaws addressing universal proxy rules and DGCL changes

## Summary
- Board approved Third Amended and Restated Bylaws effective Sept 11, 2023.
- Changes include provisions for universal proxy rules and DGCL amendments.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use non-white proxy cards; white reserved for Company.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals.
- Added Treasurer as officer; clarified indemnification for directors and officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-025637
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RMCF
- cik: 0001616262
- company_name: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774923025637/0001437749-23-025637-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774923025637/rmcfd20230911_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.: Third Amended and Restated Bylaws adopted, including changes for universal proxy rules, DGCL amendments, proxy card color requirement, stockholder nomination procedures, treasurer position, and indemnification provisions (effective 2023-09-11).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-11
  source text: On September 11, 2023, in connection with a periodic review of the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Prior Bylaws”) of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. (the “Company”), the effectiveness of new Securities and Exchange Commission rules regarding universal proxy cards (the “Universal Proxy Rules”), and certain recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) approved and adopted the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Third Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which amended and restated the Prior Bylaws in their entirety and became immediately effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774923025637/0001437749-23-025637-index.htm

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