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accession: "0001527541-26-000381"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHLR"
cik: "0001527541"
company_name: "Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-10-06T20:06:44+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T16:20:59.846425+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Wheeler REIT sets 2026 annual meeting for Dec 4 in San Juan; nomination deadline moved to Oct 16

## Summary
- 2026 annual meeting will be held in person in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday, December 4, 2026; record date is October 2, 2026.
- Meeting is more than 30 days after the 2025 annual meeting held August 20, 2025, so deadlines in the July 11, 2025 definitive proxy no longer apply.
- Revised Rule 14a-8 stockholder proposal deadline: 5:00 p.m. ET on October 14, 2026.
- Advance-notice bylaw and universal proxy (Rule 14a-19) director nomination deadline: 5:00 p.m. ET on October 16, 2026, ten calendar days after this report.
- Notices must be delivered in writing to Secretary Sydney Schlimgen at 2529 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001527541-26-000381
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHLR
- cik: 0001527541
- company_name: Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-10-06T20:06:44+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.08
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754126000381/0001527541-26-000381-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754126000381/whlr-20261001.htm

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