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PARKER HANNIFIN CORP FILES (8-K) Disclosing Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders, Financial Statements and Exhibits(Edgar Glimpses Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. (e) On October 22, 2014, the shareholders of Parker-Hannifin Corporation (the "Company") approved the Parker-Hannifin Corporation Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan offers eligible employees the opportunity to acquire the Company's common stock through periodic payroll deductions that will be applied towards the purchase of the Company's common shares at a discount from the then current market price. Currently, the Company's Board of Directors does not intend for the Company (including the named executive officers) to be designated to participate in the Plan. The effective date of the Plan is January 1, 2015. The foregoing summary of the Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Plan, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. (a) The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company was held on October 22, 2014. The number of common shares represented at the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders was 130,133,925. (b)(i) The Shareholders elected the following directors for a term expiring at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2015, as follows: Votes For Votes Withheld Broker Non-Votes Robert G. Bohn 117,032,489 3,040,877 10,060,559 Linda S. Harty 117,190,927 2,882,439 10,060,559 William E. Kassling 116,188,847 3,884,519 10,060,559 Robert J. Kohlhepp 115,491,525 4,581,841 10,060,559 Kevin A. Lobo 117,178,751 2,894,615 10,060,559 Klaus-Peter Müller 116,618,707 3,454,659 10,060,559 Candy M. Obourn 116,315,349 3,758,017 10,060,559 Joseph Scaminace 115,619,366 4,454,000 10,060,559 Wolfgang R. Schmitt 116,147,374 3,925,992 10,060,559 Åke Svensson 117,409,815 2,663,551 10,060,559 James L. Wainscott 116,736,934 3,336,432 10,060,559 Donald E. Washkewicz 115,345,884 4,727,482 10,060,559 (ii) The Shareholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, as follows: For: 128,895,031 Against: 596,141 Abstain: 642,753 (iii) The Shareholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers of the Company, as follows: For: 110,909,391 Against: 7,949,813 Abstain: 1,211,742 Broker Non-Votes: 10,060,559 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------(iv) The Shareholders approved the Parker-Hannifin Corporation Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as follows: For: 117,422,704 Against: 1,932,522 Abstain: 716,122 Broker Non-Votes: 10,060,559 (v) The shareholder proposal requesting the Board of Directors to initiate the appropriate process to amend the Company's Articles of Incorporation to provide that director nominees be elected by the affirmative vote of the majority of votes cast at an annual meeting of shareholders, with a plurality vote retained for contested director elections, did not achieve the vote standard necessary as set forth in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement and the results were as follows: For: 64,320,560 Against: 54,393,841 Abstain: 1,322,375 Broker Non-Votes: 10,060,559 Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits. (d) Exhibits: Exhibit No. Description of Exhibit 10.1 Parker-Hannifin Corporation Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 22, 2014 (Commission File No. 1 - 4982). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |