---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001771515-25-000121"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GO"
cik: "0001771515"
company_name: "Grocery Outlet Holding Corp."
filed_at: "2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T18:29:44.802097+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grocery Outlet shareholders approve special meeting right and officer exculpation; board adopts amended bylaws

## Summary
- Shareholders approved charter amendments: special meeting right (86.56% of outstanding shares) and officer exculpation (75.59%).
- Amendments effective June 4, 2025 with filing of Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
- Board adopted Amended Bylaws on June 3, 2025; includes 25% net long ownership threshold to call special meeting.
- Annual meeting re-elected directors Carey F. Jaros, Eric J. Lindberg, Jr., and Jason Potter; ratification of Deloitte & Touche.
- Say-on-pay resolution passed with 79,108,489 votes in favor (approx. 90.2% of votes cast).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001771515-25-000121
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GO
- cik: 0001771515
- company_name: Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000121/0001771515-25-000121-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000121/go-20250602.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.: Amended Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide stockholders the right to call special meetings and permit officer exculpation consistent with DGCL changes (effective 2025-06-04).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-04
  source text: to: (a) provide the Company’s stockholders with the right to call a special meeting of the stockholders as provided in the bylaws of the Company and (b) permit the exculpation of officers consistent with changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000121/0001771515-25-000121-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.: Amended and restated bylaws to implement procedural safeguards for stockholder special meeting requests, including ownership thresholds, disclosure requirements, and other conforming changes (effective 2025-06-03).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-03
  source text: on June 3, 2025, the Board amended and restated the bylaws of the Company (as so amended and restated, the “Amended Bylaws”), effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000121/0001771515-25-000121-index.htm

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