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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001443984-23-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMG"
cik: "0000825542"
company_name: "SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO"
filed_at: "2023-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T07:33:46.128619+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Scotts Miracle-Gro shareholders approve 2.3M share increase for long-term incentive plan

## Summary
- Shareholders approved amendment to Long-Term Incentive Plan, increasing maximum common shares available for grant by 2,300,000.
- Vote was 42,109,171 for, 1,572,937 against, with 88,405 abstentions and 6,234,677 broker non-votes.
- Plan now runs through January 23, 2032; allows grants of options, SARs, restricted stock, performance shares, and other equity awards.
- Also ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor (49,250,816 votes for) and approved advisory say-on-pay (42,711,259 votes for).
- Directors James Hagedorn, Nancy G. Mistretta, Gerald Volas, and Edith Avilés elected to three-year terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001443984-23-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMG
- cik: 0000825542
- company_name: SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO
- filed_at: 2023-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/825542/000144398423000023/0001443984-23-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/825542/000144398423000023/smg-20230127.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-01-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-01-23
  source text: Each of James Hagedorn, Nancy G. Mistretta, Gerald Volas and Edith Avilés was elected as a director of the Company to serve for a term expiring at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held in 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/825542/000144398423000023/0001443984-23-000023-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers at the 2023-01-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-01-23
  source text: The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was approved on an advisory basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/825542/000144398423000023/0001443984-23-000023-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO shareholders approved Ratification of the Selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2023 at the 2023-01-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-01-23
  source text: The Audit Committee’s selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/825542/000144398423000023/0001443984-23-000023-index.htm

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