Welcome to the Ball Corporation 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting. The meeting will be led by Dan Fisher, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ball Corporation. I'll now turn the call over to Mr. Fisher. Mr. Fisher, you may now begin.
The meeting will please come to order. Welcome to the 2025 Annual Meeting of Ball Corporation shareholders. Before we turn to the formal business of the meeting, I would like to recognize those in attendance today, the company's directors and officers, and a representative of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. Ms. Hannah Lim-Johnson, our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, is serving as our Inspector of Election. Our agenda for this morning's meeting is as follows: first, a presentation of the Corporate Secretary's report, after which we will present the four proposals that are subject to a vote. Then, we will allow a brief period for voting and will close the voting. Finally, we will address relevant questions asked in the room from shareholders about items on today's agenda. Shareholders may also submit questions during the meeting on the virtual web portal.
All relevant questions submitted on the portal will be answered in writing on the Investors page of our website after the meeting. Company performance will be addressed on the earnings call scheduled for May 6th, details of which are on the Ball website. The question portal will close when the meeting is adjourned. I'll now turn it over to Ms. Hannah Lim-Johnson, Corporate Secretary.
The 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders has been called by the Board of Directors for the purpose of voting on the four proposals included in our proxy statement. An affidavit has been delivered attesting that a notice of internet availability of the proxy materials was mailed on or about March 20th, 2025, to all shareholders as of the record date. The shareholder list has been made available for examination at the company's headquarters prior to the meeting. These items and the final voting results will be included in the minutes of the meeting. As of the record date, there were 282,378,872 shares of common stock outstanding that are entitled to vote at this meeting. A majority of these shares are present at the meeting in person or by proxy. Therefore, a quorum is present and the meeting is authorized to transact business.
The proposals being voted on are as follows: Proposal One, the election of 10 director nominees to serve for a one-year term expiring at the annual meeting in 2026. Proposal Two, ratification of appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the independent registered public accounting firm for the company for 2025. Proposal Three, approval by a non-binding advisory vote of the compensation of the Named Executive Officers. And Proposal Four, approval of an amendment to the company's Articles of Incorporation.
We will now conduct the official business of the meeting and will provide time for voting. Shareholders that have voted by proxies or have already voted by internet or telephone and who do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Any shareholder of record as of the record date who has not yet voted or who wishes to change his or her vote may do so now on the virtual meeting web portal, which has been open for voting since the start of this meeting. We will pause for a moment to permit shareholders to vote. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, the polls are now closed. Since all the votes have been cast in person or by proxy, I will call on Ms. Lim-Johnson to present the voting results for each of the four proposals.
Regarding Proposal One, election of directors. Each nominee for director received the majority of the votes cast at this meeting. Accordingly, all nominees have been duly elected. Regarding Proposal Two, ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the independent registered public accounting firm for the company for 2025. The proposal passed and received a majority of the votes cast. Regarding Proposal Three, to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of the company's Named executive officers. The proposal passed and received a majority of the votes cast. Regarding Proposal Four, to approve an amendment to the company's Articles of Incorporation. The proposal passed and received more than 75% of the votes cast.
Thank you, Hannah. Since there are no other matters for the annual meeting, we have completed the formal business. Before we conclude this meeting, we can respond to any shareholder questions in the room. Any relevant questions that we have received through the online platform will be answered in writing on the Investors page of our website after the meeting. Are there any questions in the room? Hearing none, I hereby declare this annual meeting of shareholders adjourned. Thank you all for attending. We'll see you next year.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.