---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-007734"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TR"
cik: "0000098677"
company_name: "TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T04:37:18.692833+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tootsie Roll shareholders elect directors and ratify Grant Thornton for 2024

## Summary
- Five director nominees elected with 317-322M votes for each; broker non-votes ~3.4M.
- Ellen R. Gordon received 317,830,273 votes for; Virginia L. Gordon received 319,620,130 votes for.
- Auditor Grant Thornton LLP ratified with 324,622,122 votes for, 4,583,684 against, 51,444 abstain.
- Meeting held May 6, 2024; all proposals approved per definitive proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-007734
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TR
- cik: 0000098677
- company_name: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-10T23:59:59+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/98677/000155837024007734/0001558370-24-007734-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837024007734/tr-20240510x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of the Company for 2024 at the 2024-05-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-06
  source text: The appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 was ratified by a vote of 324,622,122 for the motion and 4,583,684 against the motion. Abstain votes were 51,444 and broker non-votes were 0.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837024007734/0001558370-24-007734-index.htm

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