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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-029730"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IMKTA"
cik: "0000050493"
company_name: "INGLES MARKETS INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:54:56.536460+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ingles Markets adopts amended bylaws with advance notice and indemnification updates

## Summary
- Second Amended and Restated Bylaws adopted Sept 19, 2025, effective immediately.
- Adds advance notice requirements for shareholder director nominations and business proposals.
- Updates officer titles/roles and strengthens general indemnification for directors/officers.
- Provides flexibility for timing of board meetings; includes electronic signature and proxy updates.
- Other revisions are immaterial and ministerial, such as resignation process and modernizing communications.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-029730
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IMKTA
- cik: 0000050493
- company_name: INGLES MARKETS INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50493/000143774925029730/0001437749-25-029730-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50493/000143774925029730/imkta20250923_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  INGLES MARKETS INC: Adopted Second Amended and Restated Bylaws to update advance notice requirements, officer titles, indemnification provisions, and Board meeting timing, along with other modernizing updates (effective 2025-09-19).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-19
  source text: On September 19, 2025, the board of directors (the “ Board ”) of Ingles Markets, Incorporated, a North Carolina corporation (the “ Company ”), adopted the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “ Second A&R Bylaws ”), which amended and restated in their entirety the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50493/000143774925029730/0001437749-25-029730-index.htm

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