---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001709164-23-000027"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HBB"
cik: "0001709164"
company_name: "Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co"
filed_at: "2023-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T02:38:01.770022+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hamilton Beach Brands annual meeting results: all director nominees elected, say-on-pay approved

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with 39.95M-42.49M votes for; 642,091 broker non-votes.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 40.78M for, 1.33M against.
- Stockholders selected one-year frequency for future say-on-pay votes (41.68M votes for one year).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2023 approved: 43.15M for, 6,461 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001709164-23-000027
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HBB
- cik: 0001709164
- company_name: Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co
- filed_at: 2023-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/0001709164-23-000027-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/hbb-20230510.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2023 at the 2023-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-10
  source text: The stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of the Company for 2023:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/0001709164-23-000027-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co shareholders approved Election of eleven nominees to the Board of Directors at the 2023-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-10
  source text: The stockholders elected each of the following eleven nominees to the Board of Directors until the next annual meeting and until their successors are elected:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/0001709164-23-000027-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation at the 2023-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-10
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, one year as the frequency for future advisory votes to approve the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/0001709164-23-000027-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co shareholders approved Advisory vote on Named Executive Officer compensation at the 2023-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-10
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the Company’s Named Executive Officer compensation:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916423000027/0001709164-23-000027-index.htm

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