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Filed May 24, 2018 · 8y ago · Accession 0001564590-18-014313
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View original ↗UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Form 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2018
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
NEW JERSEY
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
1-87
(Commission File Number)
16-0417150
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
343 State Street
Rochester, NY 14650
(Address of principal executive offices with zip code)
(585) 724-4000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Eastman Kodak Company (the “Company”) was held on May 22, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. ET at The Benjamin, 125 East 50 th Street, New York, NY. The Company filed its definitive Proxy Statement for the proposals voted upon at the Annual Meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 2018. As of March 28, 2018, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 42,642,450 shares of common stock and 2,000,000 shares of 5.50% Series A convertible preferred stock (“Series A Preferred Stock”) issued and outstanding. Holders of shares of common stock and Series A Preferred Stock vote together as a single class, with holders of common stock having one vote per share and holders of Series A Preferred Stock having 5.7471 votes per share (representing the number of shares of common stock into which each share of Series A Preferred Stock was convertible as of the record date). Accordingly, a total of 54,136,650 votes were entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting. Holders of shares representing an aggregate of 39,703,841 votes were present or represented at the Annual Meeting, constituting a quorum for the transaction of business.
At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders of the Company, upon the recommendation of the Company’s Board of Directors, approved the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Company’s 2013 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to increase the number of shares of common stock available for grant to participants pursuant to awards under the Plan from 4,792,480 shares to 5,792,480 shares and extend the term of the Plan to May 22, 2028.
Attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 is the First Amendment. A brief description of the First Amendment and the Plan are included as part of the Company's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting. The descriptions of the First Amendment and the Plan contained herein and in the Proxy Statement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the First Amendment and the Plan.
The matters submitted to a vote of security holders at the Annual Meeting were as follows:
1.
Shareholders re-elected each of the Company’s nominees for director to serve a term of one year to expire at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, as set forth below:
Name
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
Broker Non-Votes
Richard Todd Bradley
31,657,541
79,676
30,139
7,936,485
Mark S. Burgess
31,654,396
79,473
33,487
7,936,485
Jeffrey J. Clarke
31,622,956
110,156
34,244
7,936,485
James V. Continenza
31,528,756
201,075
37,525
7,936,485
Matthew A. Doheny
31,642,358
87,899
37,099
7,936,485
Jeffrey D. Engelberg
31,652,041
80,166
35,149
7,936,485
George Karfunkel
31,596,120
135,733
35,503
7,936,485
Jason New
28,841,035
2,889,895
36,426
7,936,485
William G. Parrett
31,534,149
196,124
37,083
7,936,485
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2.
Shareholders approved, through an advisory vote, the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers (as set forth in the definitive Proxy Statement), as set forth below:
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
Broker Non-Votes
31,510,745
201,350
55,261
7,936,485
3.
Shareholders approved the First Amendment to the 2013 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as set forth below:
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
Broker Non-Votes
31,090,328
589,254
87,774
7,936,485
4.
Shareholders ratified the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to serve a one-year term beginning on the date of the Annual Meeting, as set forth below:
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
39,040,012
484,136
179,693
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
(99.1) First Amendment to the Eastman Kodak Company 2013 Omnibus Incentive Plan
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Date: May 24, 2018
By:
/s/ Sharon E. Underberg
Sharon E. Underberg
General Counsel, Secretary and Senior Vice President
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Filing details
- Company
- EASTMAN KODAK CO
- Ticker
- KODK
- CIK
- 31235
- Form type
- 8-K
- Filing date
- May 24, 2018
- Report date
- May 22, 2018
- Document
- kodk-8k_20180522.htm
- Size
- 60 KB