Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal · 2024
Humane World for Animals (formerly The Humane Society of the United States) at Weis Markets
Ask that within six months Weis Markets issue a report explaining precisely how it is prioritising the humane treatment of animals in its supply chain, setting out every animal welfare commitment, standard, requirement and policy it holds, when each was adopted, and how it has been and will go on being enforced.
What happened
Result: Not approved at the annual meeting of 2 May 2024, as Proposal No. 4: 459,475 votes for, 23,650,918 against, 29,732 abstentions and 1,535,645 broker non-votes, as certified in Weis Markets' Item 5.07 Form 8-K. That is 1.9 percent of the shares voted for and against.
Not approved, by the widest margin of any of the Humane Society's 2024 proposals. The board told shareholders it did not consider the proposal to be in the company's or its shareholders' best interests at this time.