---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-033223"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JVA"
cik: "0001007019"
company_name: "COFFEE HOLDING CO INC"
filed_at: "2023-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T11:39:59.830827+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coffee Holding sets 2023 annual meeting for Oct 27; reduces quorum to one-third

## Summary
- Bylaw amendment reduces quorum for stockholder meetings from majority to one-third of voting power.
- Annual meeting date set for October 27, 2023; proxy materials expected around October 6, 2023.
- Deadline for Rule 14a-8 proposals and director nominations: September 30, 2023.
- Universal proxy rule compliance also due by September 30, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-033223
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JVA
- cik: 0001007019
- company_name: COFFEE HOLDING CO INC
- filed_at: 2023-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.08, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223033223/0001493152-23-033223-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223033223/form8-k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-033223
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-033223.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-033223.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  COFFEE HOLDING CO INC: Decreased quorum requirement for stockholder meetings from a majority to one-third of voting power (effective 2023-09-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-20
  source text: On September 20, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) Coffee Holding Co., Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”) adopted an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, amending Section 7 of Article II thereof to decrease the quorum requirement for stockholder meetings from a majority to one-third of the voting power of the shares of the capital stock of the Company entitled to vote at a meeting, present in person or represented by proxy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223033223/0001493152-23-033223-index.htm

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