---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-009756"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRID"
cik: "0000014177"
company_name: "BRIDGFORD FOODS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T23:20:17.336953+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bridgford Foods shareholders reject proposal to take company private

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with 7.9M-8.1M votes for each; broker non-votes 281,514.
- Baker Tilly US, LLP ratified as auditor for FY 2025 with 8,507,187 votes for, 21,252 against.
- Shareholder proposal to take company private defeated: 690,046 for, 7,555,665 against.
- 94% of outstanding shares (8,528,618) represented at virtual annual meeting on March 19, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-009756
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRID
- cik: 0000014177
- company_name: BRIDGFORD FOODS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+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/14177/000164117225009756/0001641172-25-009756-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14177/000164117225009756/form8-k.htm

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