Manhattan Institute's "2019 Proxy Season Overview" summarizes Fortune 250 shareholder proposals by type, proponent, and vote outcome. Notably, 82% of proposals were sponsored by social investors (44%) or corporate gadflies (38%) - most commonly John Chevedden. This telling graphic shows the distribution of proposals by type:
Just 6% of proposals garnered a majority vote - down from 10% last year and 11% in 2017. See the detailed proposal data - sortable by meeting date, company, proposal type, and proponent, with a link to the actual proposal - via Proxy Monitor's database.
Access additional information & resources on our Shareholder Proposals and Proxy Season 2019 pages. This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!