FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of April, 2022
Brazilian
Distribution Company
(Translation of Registrant’s Name Into English)
Av. Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio,
3142 São Paulo, SP 01402-901
Brazil
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO
Publicly-Held Company
CNPJ/MF 47.508.411/0001-56
NIRE 35.300.089.901
Final synthetic voting map of the Annual and Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 27, 2022 (“ASM”)
COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO (“Company”), pursuant to §6th of Article 21-W of CVM Instruction No. 481/09 and Article 21, XIII of CVM Instruction No. 480/09, as amended, announces to its shareholders and the market the final synthetic voting map containing the distance voting instructions and votes in person, identifying how many approvals, rejections, or abstentions received each item contained in the Agenda of the ASM (“Final Synthetic Map”). The information contained in the Final Synthetic Map is attached hereto.
São Paulo, April 27, 2022.
Guillaume Marie Didier Gras
Vice President of Finance and Investor
Relations Officer
SCHEDULE
Final synthetic voting map
Annual General Meeting (AGM) - 04/27/2022 at 3 pm
Resolution No. | Description of the Resolution | Resolution vote | No. of shares |
1 | Review of the management’s accounts, as well as examination, discussion and voting of the Company’s management report and financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. | Approve | 132,251,948 |
Reject | 1,021 | ||
Abstain | 5,891,780 | ||
2 | Proposal for allocation of the net profit for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as detailed in the Management Proposal, in the following terms: (i) BRL 40,116,342.72 to the Legal Reserve; (ii) BRL 437,737,929.80 for the Tax Incentive Reserve; (iii) BRL 81,118,145.49 for the payment of interest on equity, on behalf of the mandatory minimum dividend (of which BRL 95,433,112.34 is the net amount of income tax to be withheld at source in relation to interest on equity); and (iv) BRL 229,039,469.62 to the Expansion Reserve account. | Approve | 134,472,761 |
Reject | 4,105 | ||
Abstain | 3,667,883 | ||
3 |
Resolve on the determination of nine (9) members for the term of office of the Board of Directors.
Election of the Board of Directors by single group of candidates
Controlling Shareholder: Jean-Charles Henri Naouri Arnaud Daniel Charles Walter Joachim Strasser Ronaldo Iabrudi dos Santos Pereira Christophe José Hidalgo Hervé Daudin Rafael Sirotsky Russowsky Luiz Augusto de Castro Neves Eleazar de Carvalho Filho Renan Bergmann |
Approve | 116,833,394 |
Reject | 13,641,484 | ||
Abstain | 7,669,871 |
4 |
Nomination of candidates for chairman of the Board of Directors
Jean-Charles Henri Naouri |
Approve | 112,655,374 |
Reject | 16,812,917 | ||
Abstain | 8,874,166 | ||
5 |
Nomination of candidates for vice-chairman of the Board of Directors
Arnaud Daniel Charles Walter Joachim Strasser |
Approve | 112,252,466 |
Reject | 17,018,117 | ||
Abstain | 8,874,166 | ||
6 |
Nomination of candidates for vice-chairman of the Board of Directors
Ronaldo Iabrudi dos Santos Pereira |
Approve | 112,252,466 |
Reject | 17,018,117 | ||
Abstain | 8,874,166 | ||
7 | Determination of the annual global compensation for the members of the (i) Company’s management and (ii) Company’s fiscal council (if the Shareholders request its installation), for the fiscal year 2022, in the terms of the Management Proposal, in the amount of up to BRL 97,025,083.12, being up to BRL 50,149,592.45 to the Board of Officers, up to BRL 46,443,490.67 to the Board of Directors and up to BRL 432,000.00 to the Fiscal Council. | Approve | 117,115,519 |
Reject | 17,341,458 | ||
Abstain | 3,687,772 | ||
8 | Do you wish to request the operation of the Fiscal Council for the fiscal year of 2022? | Yes | 10,836,974 |
No | 5,083,239 | ||
Abstain | 1,200,000 | ||
9 |
Nomination of candidates to the Fiscal Council by minority shareholders with voting rights.
Doris Beatriz França Wilhelm / Michelle Squeff |
Approve | 13,836,319 |
Reject | 1,200,000 | ||
Abstain | 197,708 | ||
10 |
Nomination of candidates to the Fiscal Council appointed by the controlling shareholder
Eric Aversari Martins, Líbano Miranda Barroso, Marcelo Amorim and João Paulo Seibel Faria |
Approve | 101,181,253 |
Reject | 0 | ||
Abstain | 0 |
Final synthetic voting map
Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) - 04/27/2022 at 3 pm
Resolution No. | Description of the Resolution | Resolution vote | No. of shares |
1 | Resolve on the Management Proposal for the reallocation of part of the amount of one billion, eight hundred and forty-three million, nine hundred and thirty-four thousand, four hundred and twenty-six reais and fifty-six centavos (BRL 1,843,934,426.56) granted to the Company in the years from 2017 to 2020, that were originally allocated to the Expansion Reserve of the Company provided in the By-laws, to the Reserve of Tax Incentives, pursuant terms of Article 195-A, Law No. 6,404/1976. | Approve | 154,856,379 |
Reject | 4,606 | ||
Abstain | 2,811,579 | ||
2 | Rerratification of the Board of Executive Officers’ annual compensation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, of twenty-five million, thirty-one thousand, five hundred and eighty-four reais and fifty-three centavos (R$ 25,031,584.53(, as approved at the Company’s Annual Shareholders Meeting held on April 28, 2021, to twenty-eight million, two hundred and twelve thousand, forty-eight reais and fifty-nine centavos (R$ 28,212,048.59), due to the inflows and outflows of its members throughout 2021. | Approve | 148,860,907 |
Reject | 5,128,143 | ||
Abstain | 3,683,514 |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirement 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.
COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO | |||
Date: April 27, 2022 | By: /s/ Marcelo Pimentel | ||
Name: | Marcelo Pimentel | ||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | ||
By: /s/ Guillaume Marie Didier Gras | |||
Name: | Guillaume Marie Didier Gras | ||
Title: | Investor Relations Officer |
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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