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Preliminary Voting Results from Ford Motor Company's 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
A total of 74 people attended the annual meeting of shareholders in Wilmington, Del. today.
Preliminary voting results indicate that a total of 3,232,829,070 shares of common stock and 70,852,076 shares of Class B stock with a total aggregate of 5,820,630,294 votes were represented in person or by proxy at the annual meeting. These shares represent 83.28 percent of all the votes that could have been cast. The final voting results will be disclosed in an upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Proposal 1 – Election of directors Directors elected: Stephen G. Butler Kimberly Casiano Anthony F. Earley, Jr. Edsel B. Ford II William Clay Ford, Jr. Richard A. Gephardt |
James P. Hackett James H. Hance, Jr. William W. Helman IV Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. John C. Lechleiter Ellen R. Marram |
Alan Mulally Homer A. Neal Gerald L. Shaheen John L. Thornton |
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Approved / Rejected |
Total Votes Cast |
For |
|
Votes Abstained |
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Proposal 2 – Proposal to ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit Ford’s books of account and other corporate records for 2014 |
Approved
|
5,799,436,999 |
99.1% |
0.9% |
21,191,539 |
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Proposal 3 – Nonbinding shareholder advisory vote to approve the compensation of the named executives |
Approved
|
4,635,495,961 |
75.2% |
24.8% |
26,065,325 |
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Proposal 4 – Proposal relating to the approval of the 2014 Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors |
Approved
|
4,635,158,488 |
93.6% |
6.4% |
26,399,721 |
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Proposal 5 – Shareholder proposal relating to consideration of a recapitalization plan to provide that all of the company’s outstanding stock have one vote per share |
Rejected |
4,635,732,796 |
34.4% |
65.6% |
25,824,984 |
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Proposal 6 – Shareholder proposal relating to allowing holders of 10 percent of outstanding common stock the power to call special shareholder meetings |
Rejected |
4,635,745,975 |
21.9% |
78.1% |
25,810,895 |
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