---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001670541-23-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADNT"
cik: "0001670541"
company_name: "Adient plc"
filed_at: "2023-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T05:33:39.425478+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adient shareholders elect all 8 director nominees, approve all 6 proposals at 2023 AGM

## Summary
- Eight directors elected with majorities; highest 'for' votes for Del Grosso (99.6%) and Dillon (98.3%).
- Ratification of PwC as auditor for FY2023 approved: 84.0M for vs 3.2M against.
- Say-on-pay passed with 78.9M for; frequency vote favored annual (79.2M votes for 1 year).
- Authority to issue shares and opt-out of preemption rights both renewed with over 86M 'for' each.
- Broker non-votes affected proposals 1, 3, and 4; no impact on final outcomes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001670541-23-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADNT
- cik: 0001670541
- company_name: Adient plc
- filed_at: 2023-03-10T23:59:59+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/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/adnt-20230307.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001670541-23-000080.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of Adient’s named executive officers by the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Renewal of Board authority to opt-out of statutory preemption rights under Irish law at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders approved the renewal of the Board of Directors’ authority to opt-out of statutory preemption rights under Irish law by the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor for fiscal year 2023 and authorization to set auditors' remuneration at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders ratified, by non-binding advisory vote, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Adient’s independent auditor for fiscal year 2023 and authorized, by binding vote, the Board of Directors, acting through the Audit Committee, to set the auditors’ remuneration by the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Recommendation that advisory vote on executive compensation be held every year at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders recommended that Adient hold the advisory vote on the frequency of the advisory vote on named executive officer compensation on an annual basis by the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Election of eight directors at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders elected, by separate resolutions, the following eight directors for a period of one year, expiring at the end of Adient’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2024, by the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Adient plc shareholders approved Renewal of Board authority to issue shares under Irish law at the 2023-03-07 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-07
  source text: Adient’s shareholders approved the renewal of the Board of Directors’ authority to issue shares under Irish law by the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054123000080/0001670541-23-000080-index.htm

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