Choice Hotels shareholders approve 2025 incentive plan, elect all 11 directors
Choice Hotels shareholders approved the 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan, which takes effect May 15, 2025, and allows up to 1,000,000 new shares plus unused and forfeited 2017 plan shares. At the Annual Meeting, shareholders also elected all 11 directors to one-year terms, ratified Ernst & Young LLP as auditor, and approved a shareholder proposal on a simple majority vote requirement.
Key points
- 2025 LTIP: 1,000,000 base shares plus remaining and forfeited shares from the 2017 LTIP; board adopted it February 27, 2025
- Shareholders elected 11 directors to terms ending at the 2026 Annual Meeting; Gordon A. Smith received 848,328 votes against
- Shareholder proposal on simple majority vote approved: 41,192,276 for, 1,324,256 against
- Ernst & Young LLP ratified as auditor for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025: 44,481,967 for, 94,646 against
The filing
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