---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001726173-23-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BH-A"
cik: "0001726173"
company_name: "Biglari Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T21:27:01.714731+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Biglari Holdings shareholders elect all six directors and ratify Deloitte as auditor at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- All six director nominees, including Sardar Biglari, received majority support; withheld votes ranged from 25,167 to 27,746.
- Auditor ratification passed with 185,150 for, 29 against, 37 abstentions.
- Approximately 90% of Class A common shares outstanding were voted at the meeting.
- No broker non-votes were reported for director elections.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001726173-23-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BH-A
- cik: 0001726173
- company_name: Biglari Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-21T23:59:59+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/1726173/000172617323000024/0001726173-23-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1726173/000172617323000024/bh-20230420.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001726173-23-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Biglari Holdings Inc. shareholders approved To elect the nominees listed below as directors of the Company at the 2023-04-20 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-20
  source text: Proposal 1. To elect the nominees listed below as directors of the Company: For Withheld Sardar Biglari 160,049 25,167 Philip L. Cooley 158,135 27,081 Kenneth R. Cooper 159,373 25,843 John G. Cardwell 159,495 25,721 Ruth J. Person 157,470 27,746 Edmund B. Campbell, III 159,578 25,638 There were no broker non-votes with respect to the election of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1726173/000172617323000024/0001726173-23-000024-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Biglari Holdings Inc. shareholders approved To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 at the 2023-04-20 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-20
  source text: Proposal 2. To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023: 185,150 29 37 For Against Abstentions
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1726173/000172617323000024/0001726173-23-000024-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.