McDonald's Files Proxy Supplement for May 20th Shareholder Meeting

TL;DR

McD's dropped more proxy info for the May 20th shareholder meeting. Check it.

AI Summary

McDonald's Corporation filed a Definitive Additional Materials filing (DEFA14A) on April 25, 2025, supplementing its proxy statement dated April 7, 2025. This filing pertains to the annual shareholders' meeting scheduled for May 20, 2025. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois, and operates in the retail-eating places sector.

Why It Matters

This filing provides updated or additional information to shareholders before their annual meeting, ensuring they have the latest details to make informed voting decisions on company matters.

Risk Assessment

Risk Level: low — This is a routine filing for an annual shareholder meeting, providing supplemental information rather than announcing significant new events.

Key Players & Entities

• McDonald's Corporation (company) — Registrant
• April 25, 2025 (date) — Filing Date
• April 7, 2025 (date) — Original Proxy Statement Date
• May 20, 2025 (date) — Annual Shareholders' Meeting Date
• Chicago, Illinois (location) — Company Headquarters

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From the Filing

0000950103-25-005246.txt : 20250425 0000950103-25-005246.hdr.sgml : 20250425 20250425150806 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950103-25-005246 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: DEFA14A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20250425 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20250425 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MCDONALDS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000063908 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812] ORGANIZATION NAME: 07 Trade & Services EIN: 362361282 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: DEFA14A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-05231 FILM NUMBER: 25873163 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 110 NORTH CARPENTER STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60607 BUSINESS PHONE: 630 623 3000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 110 NORTH CARPENTER STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60607 DEFA14A 1 dp228100_defa14a.htm FORM DEFA14A UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Filed by the Registrant ☒               Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box: ☐ Preliminary Proxy Statement ☐ Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) ☐ Definitive Proxy Statement ☒ Definitive Additional Materials ☐ Soliciting Material under §240.14a-12 McDonald’s Corporation (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter) N/A (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box): ☒ No fee required. ☐ Fee paid previously with preliminary materials. ☐ Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11. SUPPLEMENT TO PROXY STATEMENT DATED APRIL 7, 2025 FOR THE ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING TO BE HELD ON MAY 20, 2025 Dear McDonald’s Corporation Shareholders: You may have seen a recent letter to McDonald’s shareholders from SOC Investment Group (SOC), an organization that works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with the Strategic Organizing Center. We support, encourage and regularly conduct investor engagement, and we welcome the perspectives of shareholders and other stakeholders. However, we were disappointed by several mischaracterizations in SOC’s letter, and we believe that it is necessary to set the record straight. McDonald’s has meaningfully enhanced its lobbying-related disclosure since shareholders voted on a 2023 lobbying-related shareholder proposal When shareholders speak, we listen. At our 2023 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, an advisory shareholder proposal requesting that we issue an annual report on our lobbying activities and expenditures received meaningful support. Notwithstanding that at the time, McDonald’s corporate political policies and disclosures were already ranked “first tier” by the CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, we committed to engaging with our shareholders and further enhancing our disclosures based on that feedback. Accordingly, in 2024, we published the following enhancements to our public policy and engagement disclosures on a dedicated Public Policy Engagement website : · A list of the key issue areas on which McDonald’s lobbies policymakers; · An enhanced roadmap of our broader approach to, and philosophy on, lobbying activities involving policymakers. This disclosure includes the Policy on U.S. Political Contribution and Engagement adopted by our Board, which, among other things, provides detail into the reporting and oversight structure for these lobbying activities; · Disclosure of our federal government lobbying activities and expenses through links to the lobbying disclosure reports that McDonald’s files on a quarte