0001104659-12-024904.txt : 20120412 0001104659-12-024904.hdr.sgml : 20120412 20120412093325 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-12-024904 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120410 ITEM INFORMATION: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders FILED AS OF DATE: 20120412 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120412 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR CO /MN/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000004828 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SUGAR & CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTS [2060] IRS NUMBER: 840004720 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-83868 FILM NUMBER: 12755549 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 N 3RD ST CITY: MOORHEAD STATE: MN ZIP: 56560 BUSINESS PHONE: 6122028110 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 NORTH THIRD STREET CITY: MOORHEAD STATE: MN ZIP: 56560 8-K 1 a12-9477_18k.htm 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

DATE OF REPORT: April 10, 2012

 

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Minnesota

 

33-83868; 333-11693; and
333-32251

 

84-0004720

(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation)

 

(Commission)
File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

101 NORTH THIRD STREET

 

 

MOORHEAD, MN 56560

 

(218) 236-4400

(Address of principal executive
offices)

 

(Registrant’s telephone number)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


 

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

American Crystal Sugar Company (Company) held a special meeting of the shareholders of the Moorhead Factory District on April 10, 2012 (Special Meeting) for the purpose of electing a director to fill the vacancy resulting from the death of Moorhead Factory District director, Mr. Dale Kuehl.

 

Prior to the Special Meeting, three shareholders were nominated for the office. The shareholders from the Moorhead Factory District elected Dale Fischer to serve as a director.  He received 55 of the 84 votes cast, with the other two nominees receiving 19 and 10 of the votes cast.

 

Mr. Fischer’s term begins immediately and expires in December 2014. Mr. Fischer is 57 years old and has been raising sugarbeets in the Moorhead, Minnesota area since 1973. Mr. Fischer has served on the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association’s Board of Directors for the past 12 years, currently serving as chairperson of the Moorhead Factory District and on the Executive Committee. Mr. Fischer has been a director of the Farmers Union Oil Company of Moorhead for the past 24 years and is a past chairperson of the board.

 

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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

 

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

April 12, 2012

 

/s/ Teresa Warne

 

 

 

By:  Teresa Warne

 

 

 

Its:   Chief Accounting Officer

 

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