Form 8-K

0001193125-13-214232.txt : 20130510 0001193125-13-214232.hdr.sgml : 20130510 20130510161756 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-214232 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130508 ITEM INFORMATION: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders FILED AS OF DATE: 20130510 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130510 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000081362 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS OF PETROLEUM & COAL [2990] IRS NUMBER: 230993790 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12019 FILM NUMBER: 13833689 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE QUAKER PARK STREET 2: 901 HECTOR STREET CITY: CONSHOHOCKEN STATE: PA ZIP: 19428 BUSINESS PHONE: 6108324000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE QUAKER PARK STREET 2: 901 HECTOR ST CITY: CONSHOHOCKEN STATE: PA ZIP: 19428 8-K 1 d537143d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 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

May 8, 2013

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Commission File Number 001-12019

PENNSYLVANIA

No. 23-0993790

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

One Quaker Park

901 E. Hector Street

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

(610) 832-4000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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:

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

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INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT

Item 5.07.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Quaker Chemical Corporation’s (the “Company’s”) Annual Meeting of Shareholders was held on May 8, 2013 (the “2013 Annual Meeting”). As of March 8, 2013, the record date for the Company’s 2013 Annual Meeting, the holders of 877,398 shares of the Company’s common stock were entitled to cast ten votes for each share held and the holders of 12,246,335 shares of the Company’s common stock were entitled to cast one vote for each share held, for a total of 21,020,315 votes.

After the inclusion of additional votes by shareholders claiming ten for one voting rights, shareholders present in person or by proxy at the 2013 Annual Meeting were entitled to cast 28,468,320 votes. Set forth below are the matters acted upon by the shareholders at the 2013 Annual Meeting and the final voting results of each such proposal.

Proposal No. 1 – Election of Directors

The shareholders elected three directors to serve a three-year term until the 2016 annual meeting of shareholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified. The results of the vote were as follows:


Directors	For		Withhold		Broker Non-Votes

Joseph B. Anderson, Jr.		21,608,436		5,754,146		1,105,738
Patricia C. Barron		26,757,308		605,274		1,105,738
Mark A. Douglas		27,246,977		115,605		1,105,738

Proposal No. 2 – Approval of the 2013 Director Stock Ownership Plan


For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes

	26,958,284		352,281		52,017		1,105,738

Proposal No. 3 – Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2013

The shareholders voted to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year 2013. The results of the vote were as follows:


For		Against		Abstain

	28,263,240		169,479		35,601

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SIGNATURE

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.


	QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION
	Registrant

Date: May 10, 2013	By:	/S/ D. JEFFRY BENOLIEL
		D. Jeffry Benoliel
		Vice President – Global
		Metalworking and Fluid Power and Corporate Secretary

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