---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001584509-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARMK"
cik: "0001584509"
company_name: "Aramark"
filed_at: "2023-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T01:02:57.494161+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aramark shareholders approve 2023 Stock Incentive Plan with 8.5M shares

## Summary
- Shareholders approved 2023 Stock Incentive Plan; 8,500,000 shares authorized for issuance.
- Eleven directors elected; Stephen I. Sadove received the most votes against (8.3M).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor for fiscal 2023: 211M for, 1.1M against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 190M for, 8M against.
- Plan effective immediately upon shareholder approval at Feb 3, 2023 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001584509-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARMK
- cik: 0001584509
- company_name: Aramark
- filed_at: 2023-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/0001584509-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/cik0-20230203.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Aramark shareholders approved Approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed on December 23, 2022 at the 2023-02-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-02-03
  source text: Approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed on December 23, 2022: For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 190,014,227 8,028,958 218,829 14,011,565
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/0001584509-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aramark shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending September 29, 2023 at the 2023-02-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-02-03
  source text: Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending September 29, 2023: For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 211,041,626 1,060,426 171,527 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/0001584509-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aramark shareholders approved Approval of the Aramark 2023 Stock Incentive Plan at the 2023-02-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-02-03
  source text: Approval of the Aramark 2023 Stock Incentive Plan: For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 184,359,080 13,800,589 102,345 14,011,565
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/0001584509-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aramark shareholders approved Election of each of the following 11 director nominees to the Company’s Board to serve until the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting or until his or her respective successor has been duly elected and qualified at the 2023-02-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-02-03
  source text: Election of each of the following 11 director nominees to the Company’s Board to serve until the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting or until his or her respective successor has been duly elected and qualified: Nominees for Director For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes Susan M. Cameron 194,682,682 3,398,372 180,960 14,011,565 Greg Creed 197,410,378 669,605 182,031 14,011,565 Bridgette P. Heller 195,815,822 2,263,710 182,482 14,011,565 Paul C. Hilal 196,080,051 1,999,112 182,851 14,011,565 Kenneth M. Keverian 197,640,777 437,989 183,248 14,011,565 Karen M. King 197,654,391 424,379 183,244 14,011,565 Patricia E. Lopez 197,073,660 1,008,483 179,871 14,011,565 Stephen I. Sadove 189,771,386 8,308,408 182,220 14,011,565 Kevin G. Wills 197,814,659 384,652 62,703 14,011,565 Arthur B. Winkleblack 196,332,800 1,747,161 182,053 14,011,565 John J. Zillmer 194,863,046 3,345,656 53,312 14,011,565
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1584509/000158450923000025/0001584509-23-000025-index.htm

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