secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     GENERAL MILLS INC (GIS)
CIK:        0000040704
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-02T15:25:17+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-064413
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

General Mills holders back officer exculpation, federal forum charter changes at 2026 annual meeting
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- Charter amendments approved: officer exculpation 306.0M for vs 40.8M against; federal forum provision 293.5M for vs 53.2M against; effective October 1, 2026.
- All 12 director nominees elected; Jeffrey L. Harmening drew the lowest support at 325.7M for vs 20.7M against, with 95.4M broker non-votes.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed 324.3M for vs 22.2M against; independent auditor ratification passed 414.7M for vs 28.4M against.
- Shareholder proposals all failed: blank-check preferred (219.8M for/125.8M against), human rights report (44.9M/299.4M), pesticide reduction (55.9M/288.5M).
- 444,390,002 common shares were represented in person or by proxy at the September 29, 2026 meeting.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000162828026064413/0001628280-26-064413-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000162828026064413/gis-20260929.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-064413

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