WRI-2014.04.24-8KforShareholderMeeting

 
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 (Date of earliest event reported): April 24, 2014

WEINGARTEN REALTY INVESTORS
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)

Texas
1-9876
74-1464203
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)
(Commission file number)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

2600 Citadel Plaza Drive, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77008
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (713) 866-6000


Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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

On April 24, 2014, Weingarten Realty Investors (“the Company”) held its 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”). A total of 122,162,433 shares of the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest (“common shares”) were entitled to vote as of February 27, 2014, the record date for the Annual Meeting. There were 114,931,623 common shares present in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting, at which the shareholders were asked to vote on three proposals. Set forth below are the matters acted upon by the shareholders of the Company at the Annual Meeting, and the final voting results of each proposal.

(1)    The shareholders elected each of the eleven nominees to the Board of Trust Managers to serve until their successors have been elected and qualified, as follows:
TRUST MANAGER
 
FOR
 
WITHHELD
Andrew M. Alexander
 
97,620,729
 
314,509
Stanford Alexander
 
97,234,161
 
701,077
Shelaghmichael Brown
 
97,523,608
 
411,630
James W. Crownover
 
93,674,039
 
4,261,199
Robert J. Cruikshank
 
97,215,694
 
719,544
Melvin A. Dow
 
97,321,577
 
613,661
Stephen A. Lasher
 
97,257,234
 
678,004
Thomas L. Ryan
 
74,718,346
 
23,216,892
Douglas W. Schnitzer
 
97,113,493
 
821,745
C. Park Shaper
 
97,469,768
 
465,470
Marc J. Shapiro
 
97,045,849
 
889,389

There were 16,996,385 broker non-votes with respect to the election of the Board of Trust Managers.

(2)    The shareholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm, as follows:
FOR
 
114,069,803
AGAINST
 
724,368
ABSTAIN
 
137,452

(3)    The shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation awarded to the Company’s executives named in the Summary Compensation Table, as disclosed in the Company’s 2014 Proxy Statement, as follows:
FOR
 
94,800,403
AGAINST
 
2,833,501
ABSTAIN
 
301,334
BROKER NON-VOTES
 
16,996,385



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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.

Date: April 25, 2014

 
WEINGARTEN REALTY INVESTORS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/ Joe D. Shafer
 
 
Joe D. Shafer
 
 
Senior Vice President/
Chief Accounting Officer

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