Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
BellRing Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) held its annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) entirely virtually, conducted via a live audio-only webcast on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. Upon stockholder approval at the Annual Meeting of the Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to declassify the Company’s Board of Directors as described in Proposal 1 under Item 5.07 below, the Certificate of Amendment and Amendment to the Company’s Bylaws included with the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 17, 2024 and supplemented on January 3, 2025 became effective with the filing of that Certificate of Amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 28, 2025.
Following the adoption of these amendments, the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws became effective with the filing of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 31, 2025. In accordance with Section 245 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation restated the provisions of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation as theretofore amended or supplemented and only omitted certain provisions of the original Certificate of Incorporation which named the incorporator. The Amended and Restated Bylaws restated the provisions of the Company’s Bylaws as theretofore amended or supplemented and only omitted certain provisions addressing notice periods relating to the Company’s first annual meeting of stockholders following its initial public offering that had already lapsed.
Copies of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws are attached hereto as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At the Annual Meeting, of the 128,975,315 shares outstanding and entitled to vote, 109,791,916 shares were represented, constituting a 85.1% quorum. The final result for each of the matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders at the Annual Meeting are as follows:
Proposal 1: An amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to declassify the Company’s Board of Directors was approved by the votes set forth in the table below:
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For | | Against | | Abstain | | Broker Non-Votes | | Percentage of Votes Cast For |
105,095,580 | | 21,341 | | 53,605 | | 4,621,390 | | 99.9% |
Proposal 2: Each of the nominees for director were elected to serve until the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026 or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:
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Nominee | | For | | Withhold | | Broker Non-Votes | | Percentage of Votes Cast For |
Robert V. Vitale | | 96,275,828 | | 8,894,698 | | 4,621,390 | | 91.5% |
Chonda J. Nwamu | | 103,081,558 | | 2,088,968 | | 4,621,390 | | 98.0% |