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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
BRBR
New
York Stock Exchange
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Item
5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
BellRing Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) held its annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) at the offices of Post Holdings, Inc., 2600 S. Hanley Rd., St. Louis, Missouri63144 on Friday, March 6, 2020. At the Annual Meeting, 37,610,376 votes for the holders of 37,610,376 shares of the Class A common stock of the Company and 80,051,947 votes for the holder of 1 share of the Class B common stock of the
Company, totaling 117,662,323 votes of the common stock of the Company, were represented, constituting a 98.48% 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: Both of the nominees for director were elected to serve until the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2023 or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:
Nominee
For
Withhold
Broker
Non-Votes
Percentage of Votes Cast For
Elliot H. Stein, Jr.
111,974,568
5,039,558
648,197
95.69
%
Darcy H. Davenport
114,041,900
2,972,226
648,197
97.46
%
Proposal
2: The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2020 was ratified by the stockholders, by the votes set forth in the table below:
For
Against
Abstain
Percentage
of Votes Cast For
117,591,579
2,980
67,764
100.00
%
Proposal 3: The Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors, as described in, and filed as part of, the Company’s
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2020, was approved by the votes set forth in the table below:
For
Against
Abstain
Percentage
of Votes Cast For
116,871,012
114,531
28,583
99.90
%
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 thereunto duly authorized.