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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001999371-25-006064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WNEB"
cik: "0001157647"
company_name: "Western New England Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T07:56:52.602471+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders approve increase in shares under 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan by 1M shares

## Summary
- Shareholders elected directors Gary G. Fitzgerald (13,099,663 for) and Paul C. Picknelly (12,735,191 for) to three-year terms expiring 2028.
- Non-binding advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved (12,670,770 for, 406,270 against, 276,573 abstain).
- Ratification of Wolf & Company as independent auditor for FY2025 approved (15,653,350 for, 277,475 against).
- Amendment and restatement of 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan approved, increasing shares reserved by 1,000,000 (12,457,803 for, 487,738 against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001999371-25-006064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WNEB
- cik: 0001157647
- company_name: Western New England Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1157647/000199937125006064/0001999371-25-006064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1157647/000199937125006064/wneb-8k_051425.htm

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