Starbucks Corp 8-K, filed Mar 22, 2022
Starbucks Corp (SBUX)
8-K
2022-03-22
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About this 8-K
Starbucks Corp filed this 8-K on March 22, 2022, reporting on events of March 16, 2022.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 16, 2022
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of Starbucks Corporation (the “Company”), the Company’s shareholders approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s 2005 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the “Equity Plan”) to, among other things, increase the number of shares authorized for issuance under the Equity Plan by 65 million additional shares and eliminate the termination date of the Equity Plan. The amendment and restatement of the Equity Plan previously had been approved, subject to shareholder approval, by the Board of Directors of the Company on November 9, 2021.
A more complete description of the terms of the Equity Plan can be found in “Proposal 2 - Approval of Amendment and Restatement of 2005 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan” in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 28, 2022 (the “2022 Proxy Statement”), which description is incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing description and the description incorporated by reference from the 2022 Proxy Statement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Equity Plan, a copy of which is included in the 2022 Proxy Statement as Appendix B thereto.
SIGNATURES
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.
| STARBUCKS CORPORATION | ||||||||||||||
| Dated: | March 22, 2022 | |||||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Rachel A. Gonzalez | |||||||||||||
| Rachel A. Gonzalez | ||||||||||||||
| executive vice president, general counsel | ||||||||||||||