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At SOVOS BRANDS INC.'s shareholder meeting held October 16, 2023, in the 2023-2024 proxy season, 78 asset managers reported how they voted in their SEC Form N-PX filings, covering 408 separate fund positions. Their filings are grouped here into 2 reported items; because filers word the same ballot item differently, that can be more than the number of items on the ballot. SOVOS BRANDS INC.'s own Form 8-K tally for this meeting is published below, but no row in it could be matched to the most widely held item, so this page states no certified outcome for that item. On that item — A PROPOSAL TO ADJOURN THE SPECIAL MEETING, IF NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE, INCLUDING TO SOLICIT… — the reporting funds cast 95% of the shares they voted in favour (FOR divided by FOR plus AGAINST plus WITHHELD; abstained and unvoted shares are excluded because neither took a side). That is the aggregate of those managers' own N-PX disclosures, not the company's certified result, and the funds are a subset of all shareholders.
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Compiled from SEC Form N-PX filings and SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s Form 8-K, filed October 16, 2023 (Item 5.07 on EDGAR). Page generated November 8, 2026.
Meeting of October 16, 2023: 1 item on SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s Form 8-K, filed October 16, 2023: 1 approved.
None.
Material dissent: a director nominee under 80% of the votes cast, say-on-pay under 70%, any other item the board put forward under 80%, or a shareholder proposal with more than 50%, on the company’s own Form 8-K tally. How this is decided
Proxy season: 2023-2024
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These tallies are SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s own, as disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, filed October 16, 2023 (Item 5.07, “Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”). They cover every share voted at the meeting, not just the funds that file Form N-PX.
| Ballot item | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Broker non-votes | Support (of votes cast) | Reported outcome | Voting standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Adoption of the Merger Agreement. The proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement | 93,604,250 | 8,007 | 53,719 | -- | -- | 99.9% | Approved | a supermajority of the shares outstanding |
Source: SOVOS BRANDS INC., Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on October 16, 2023 — read the filing on EDGAR.
Each item below shows how the 78 asset managers that disclosed a SOVOS BRANDS INC. vote in their SEC Form N-PX filings actually voted. Share totals are the shares those managers' funds voted, summed across every fund they report. These are reported items, not a count of the ballot: fund filings describe one ballot item in different words. Two descriptions are shown as one item only on evidence — the same text (or one cut short of the other), the same director nominee, or a match to the same row of SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s own Form 8-K tally — never because they merely read alike. A description that could not be joined that way is listed on its own, so one ballot item can appear more than once.
Combines 5 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
99.9% Approved · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: A proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 7, 2023 entered into among Sovos Brands, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), Campbell Soup Company, a New Jersey corporation ("Campbell") and Premium Products Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Campbell ("Merger Sub"), as may be amended from time to time (the "merger agreement"), pursuant to which Campbell will acquire the Company by means of a merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving entity following the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Campbell.
SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s own tally for this item (“1. Proposal No. 1: Adoption of the Merger Agreement. The proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement”): 93,604,250 for, 8,007 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed October 16, 2023 (Item 5.07).
Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement was approved by the affirmative vote of approximately 92.37% of the shares of Company common stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.”
Support: 99.9% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Voting standard, as the filing states it: a supermajority of the shares outstanding (“92.37% of the shares of Company common stock entitled to vote”).
The 78 asset managers below reported 20,770,072 for, 32,580 abstained.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | 4,566,016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Capital Group | 2,479,244 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| MERGER FUND | 1,532,690 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II | 1,334,206 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 1,108,978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Loomis Sayles | 1,049,514 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ARBITRAGE FUNDS | 925,936 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Dimensional | 825,207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| OLD WESTBURY FUNDS INC | 714,310 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| NEXPOINT FUNDS I | 422,418 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 420,812 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| New York Life | 394,071 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 374,410 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Hartford | 372,851 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 347,090 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| American Century | 299,537 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Russell Investments | 297,622 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 221,114 | 0 | 32,580 | 0 | Mixed |
| First Trust | 223,712 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Virtus | 222,680 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Brighthouse | 221,797 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northwestern Mutual | 209,398 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 193,481 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Legg Mason | 184,179 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Gabelli | 157,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 78 asset managers. All 78 are in the interactive database (link above).
95% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: A PROPOSAL TO ADJOURN THE SPECIAL MEETING, IF NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE, INCLUDING TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL PROXIES IF THERE ARE INSUFFICIENT VOTES AT THE TIME OF THE SPECIAL MEETING TO ADOPT THE MERGER AGREEMENT.
The 78 asset managers below reported 19,787,430 for, 982,642 against, 32,580 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | 4,566,016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Capital Group | 2,479,244 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| MERGER FUND | 1,532,690 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II | 1,334,206 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 176,291 | 932,687 | 0 | 0 | Mixed |
| Loomis Sayles | 1,049,514 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ARBITRAGE FUNDS | 925,936 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Dimensional | 825,207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| OLD WESTBURY FUNDS INC | 714,310 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| NEXPOINT FUNDS I | 422,418 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 420,812 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| New York Life | 394,071 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 374,410 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Hartford | 372,851 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 347,090 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| American Century | 299,537 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Russell Investments | 297,622 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 221,114 | 0 | 32,580 | 0 | Mixed |
| First Trust | 223,712 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Virtus | 222,680 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Brighthouse | 221,797 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northwestern Mutual | 209,398 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 179,715 | 13,766 | 0 | 0 | Mixed |
| Legg Mason | 184,179 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Gabelli | 157,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 78 asset managers. All 78 are in the interactive database (link above).
Ranked separately for each type of Form N-PX report. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two tables can list the same shares and are never added together. Each is ranked by the shares voted on the item that the most managers of that type reported, shown as a share of the 101,318,245 shares outstanding at the time of that meeting.
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard | 4.51% |
| 2 | Capital Group | 2.45% |
| 3 | MERGER FUND | 1.51% |
| 4 | Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II | 1.32% |
| 5 | Fidelity | 1.09% |
| 6 | Loomis Sayles | 1.04% |
| 7 | ARBITRAGE FUNDS | 0.91% |
| 8 | Dimensional | 0.81% |
| 9 | OLD WESTBURY FUNDS INC | 0.71% |
| 10 | NEXPOINT FUNDS I | 0.42% |
As disclosed to the SEC in Form 13F (quarter-end holdings of 30 large managers), Schedules 13D and 13G (beneficial ownership above 5%) and the company’s own proxy statement (DEF 14A). Each row names its form.
| Holder | % outstanding | Disclosure |
|---|---|---|
| The Vanguard Group | 5.28% | 13G |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 1.33% | 13G |
Percentages above are of 101,318,245 shares outstanding, as reported by SOVOS BRANDS INC. on its Form 10-Q dated August 4, 2023 (see the filing on EDGAR). This is the count contemporaneous with the 2023-2024 meeting, not today’s. Each holding is as of its own filing, which may be dated before or after the meeting.
Every figure above is derived from filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission: Form N-PX, in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes), and Form 8-K Item 5.07, in which the company reports its own meeting results. Shares outstanding are taken from SOVOS BRANDS INC.’s 10-Q dated August 4, 2023. This page is a static snapshot rebuilt weekly on November 8, 2026; a live search always shows the current data.
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