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accession: "0001709164-25-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HBB"
cik: "0001709164"
company_name: "Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co"
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T23:53:42.723538+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hamilton Beach reports results of 2025 Annual Meeting; all director nominees elected

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected with 40.4M to 42.7M votes for each; 669,426 broker non-votes.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 41.4M for, 1.2M against, 406,388 abstentions.
- Ernst & Young LLP ratified as independent auditor for 2025: 43.6M for, 59,623 against, 5,788 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001709164-25-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HBB
- cik: 0001709164
- company_name: Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916425000026/0001709164-25-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1709164/000170916425000026/hbb-20250508.htm

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