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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Central Garden & Pet (CENT)

Central Garden & Pet shareholders elect 10 directors; fiscal 2024 bonuses disclosed

Neutral Impact 3 of 5 shareholder Written later

At its February 12, 2025 annual meeting, shareholders elected all ten director nominees and ratified Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent auditor for fiscal 2025. The filing also discloses fiscal 2024 cash bonuses approved February 11, 2025, which were left out of the proxy statement because the amounts had not yet been set.

Key points

  • Christopher T. Metz received 13,980,186 votes for and 5,321,592 withheld, the weakest support among the ten nominees.
  • Deloitte & Touche LLP was ratified with 19,566,205 votes for and 268,191 against.
  • Non-equity incentive pay for fiscal 2024 includes $920,000 for Mary Beth Springer and $341,000 for John Hanson; the Board withdrew Proposal Three on an officer exculpation amendment.

The filing

CompanyCentral Garden & Pet (CENT)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECFeb 18, 2025, 4:25 PM ET
Accession number0000887733-25-000009

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change5.07 Shareholder Vote Results

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 6:56 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on February 18, 2025.

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