Good morning, and welcome to the 2026 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Monro, Inc. I am Robert Mellor, Chairman of the Board of Monro, Inc. and Chair of this meeting. It is my pleasure to welcome you here today. It is now shortly after 10:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time on August 11th, and this meeting is officially called to order. I would like to acknowledge the presence at this meeting of other members of the company's board of directors, Peter Solomon, John Auerbach, Peter Fitzsimmons, Lindsay Hyde, Leah Johnson, Stephen McCluski, Thomas Okray, and Hope Woodhouse. Now we will proceed with the official business of the meeting, the matters described in the proxy statement made available to all shareholders. To do that, I would like to introduce Ms. Maureen Mulholland. Maureen's Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, who will act as the secretary of this meeting. Maureen? Thank you, Rob, and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We're excited to again be hosting our annual shareholder meeting virtually, allowing us to be more inclusive and reach a greater number of our shareholders. We have shareholders attending via the web portal and the 800 number that we have provided. As is our custom, we will conduct the business portion of our meeting first and answer questions from our shareholders at the end of the meeting. Our question and answer session will be conducted pursuant to the rules of conduct outlined on the meeting's webpage. Shareholders may ask questions in writing in the designated field on the web portal. As previously stated, each question must pertain to the business of the meeting. Out of consideration for others, we ask that you limit yourself to one question. During this session, we may not be able to answer every question. We will, however, do our best to provide a response to any unanswered questions directly. Please note that this meeting is being recorded. However, no one attending via the webcast or by phone is permitted to use any audio recording device. We are also joined here today by Mr. Nick Dolan from PricewaterhouseCoopers, our independent auditors. He will be available during the question and answer session after the business portion of the meeting to respond to appropriate questions. Mr. Jack Heisman is with us today from Monro as the Inspector of Election of this meeting. Mr. Heisman has been appointed by the board of directors and took the oath of office earlier today. The board of directors fixed June 22nd, 2026, as the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at this meeting. An affidavit has been delivered attesting to the fact that, one, a notice of internet availability of the notice of the meeting, the proxy statement, and the 2026 annual report to shareholders, or two, the documents themselves were mailed on or about July 2nd, 2026, to all shareholders as of the record date and will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The shareholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 31,246,875 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote this meeting. We are informed by the Inspector of Election that there are represented in person or by proxy shares of common stock representing 27,772,871 votes, or approximately 89% of the voting power on the record date. Since this represents more than a majority of the voting power of all the issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote on the record date, a quorum is present for purposes of transacting business. Thank you, Maureen. I will present the matters to be voted upon. Proposal one is the election of eight directors. The nominating committee, comprised entirely of independent directors, recommended to the board of directors the nomination of each of the following eight individuals for the election to the board of directors to serve as directors until the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Peter B. Fitzsimmons, Lindsay N. Hyde, Leah C. Johnson, Stephen C. McCluski, Robert E. Mellor, Thomas V. Okray, Peter J. Solomon, and Hope Woodhouse. Proposal two, to approve on a non-binding advisory basis the compensation paid to the company's named executive officers. Proposal three is to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company with a fiscal year ending March 27, 2027. It is now 10:05 A.M. Eastern Time on August 11, 2026, and the polls are now open. Any shareholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. Shareholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet and do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls for the 2026 annual shareholder meeting for Monro closed at 10:06 A.M. Eastern Time on August 11, 2026. Mr. Heisman, do we have preliminary voting results? We do. We have been informed by the Inspector of Election that the preliminary vote report shows that the following nominees for election to the board have been duly elected:. Peter Fitzsimmons, Lindsay N. Hyde, Leah C. Johnson, Stephen C. McCluski, Robert E. Mellor, Thomas Okray, Peter J. Solomon, and Hope Woodhouse. The compensation of the named executive officers has been approved by advisory vote, and the shareholders have ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's independent public accountants. We will be reporting the final vote results in a Form 8-K to be filed within four business days of this meeting. Thank you, Maureen. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the 2026 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Monro, Inc. is now adjourned. Now we would like to open things up for any shareholder questions and comments with respect to the agenda items of this meeting. Again, only questions pertaining to the business of this meeting will be addressed. We will take shareholder questions that are being entered today on the web portal. Please note we will attempt to answer as many questions as time allows. As there are no further questions to come before the meeting, our meeting will now come to a close. Thank you for attending Monro's 2026 Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Have a good day. The meeting has now concluded. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.
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