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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-23-019587"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XELB"
cik: "0001083220"
company_name: "XCel Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:59:38.385135+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Xcel Brands stockholders elect directors and ratify auditor at Dec 6, 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- All five director nominees elected: D'Loren, DiSanto, Fielding, Liebman, Weinswig each received over 11.7M for votes.
- Broker non-votes of 2,529,226 were recorded on director elections.
- Ratification of Marcum LLP as auditor passed with 14,623,950 for, 39,211 against, 7,101 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-23-019587
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XELB
- cik: 0001083220
- company_name: XCel Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837023019587/0001558370-23-019587-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837023019587/xelb-20231206x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  XCel Brands, Inc. shareholders approved Election of five directors at the 2023-12-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-06
  source text: At the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on December 6, 2023, the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting voted to (i) elect the five individuals named below to serve as directors of the Company to hold office until the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in 2024 and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified, and (ii) approve to ratify the appointment of Marcum LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083220/000155837023019587/0001558370-23-019587-index.htm

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