---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-21-050018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CULP"
cik: "0000723603"
company_name: "CULP INC"
filed_at: "2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T23:37:25.695262+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Culp shareholders elect eight directors, ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay at annual meeting

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected: John A. Baugh, Robert G. Culp IV, Perry E. Davis, Sharon A. Decker, Kimberly B. Gatling, Jonathan L. Kelly, Fred A. Jackson, Franklin N. Saxon.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2022: 10,600,713 for, 103,077 against, 177,687 abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation (Say on Pay): 9,152,703 for, 473,054 against, 179,522 abstain, 1,076,198 broker non-votes.
- Broker non-votes on director elections were 1,076,198 for each nominee; votes for ranged from 9,388,174 to 9,515,595.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-21-050018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CULP
- cik: 0000723603
- company_name: CULP INC
- filed_at: 2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723603/000156459021050018/0001564590-21-050018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723603/000156459021050018/culp-8k_20210929.htm

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