Hello, welcome to the Burlington Stores, Inc. 2026 Annual Stockholders Meeting. Please note that this meeting is being recorded. Questions may be submitted via the text box in the lower left of the screen by typing your message, then clicking the Submit icon below the text box. Please note that in the interest of all shareholders, we will only address those questions that are pertinent to the business of the meeting. It is now my pleasure to now turn the meeting over to John Mahoney, Chairman of the Board of Burlington Stores. Mr. Mahoney, you may begin.
Good morning, and welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Burlington Stores. I'm John Mahoney, the company's chair, and I'll be presiding over this meeting. At this time, I call the meeting to order. Before proceeding to the business of the meeting, I'd like to introduce to you the directors of the company in attendance: Shira Goodman, Michael Goodwin, Jordan Hitch, William McNamara, Michael O'Sullivan, Jessica Rodriguez, Laura Sen, Michael Skirvin, Paul Sullivan, and Mary Ann Tocio. Before I introduce the members of management present at the meeting today, I'd like to acknowledge Mary Ann's retirement from the board, which is effective as of today. On behalf of the board and the company, thank you, Mary Ann, for your many years of service on the board and for your contributions to the company.
In addition to our directors, a number of our executives are in attendance, including Kristin Wolfe, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, David Glick, our Group Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer, and Matthew Pasch, our Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Karen Leu, our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, will act as Secretary of today's meeting. Peder Hagberg, a representative of Broadridge, will serve as Inspector of Elections and has provided us with his oath as the Inspector. It's also my pleasure to introduce you to Scott King and Jenna Pogorzelski from Deloitte & Touche. They'll be available to answer questions during the question-and-answer period at the end of the meeting. I'll now turn it over to Karen.
Thank you. We are conducting this meeting in accordance with our bylaws. The meeting rules and agenda are available on the virtual meeting website in the Meeting Materials section located at the bottom of your screen. A copy of the Notice of Annual Meeting and proxy materials were made available to shareholders beginning on April 2nd, and we have received an affidavit of mailing to this effect from Broadridge, who disseminated our proxy materials. These items will be incorporated into the minutes of today's meeting. The record date for voting at today's meeting was March 25th. We are informed by the Inspector of Elections that a quorum is present, and the meeting is now duly convened. We will now turn to the formal business of the meeting.
After the formal meeting is adjourned, we will have members of management and the board available for questions, which may be submitted on the virtual meeting website during the meeting. The polls are now open, and shareholders can vote online. The agenda for the meeting will be limited to the proposal set forth in the notice and proxy statement, which I will now review. Proposal one. The first item on the agenda is the election of Ted English, Shira Goodman, Jordan Hitch, John Mahoney, Laura Sen, Michael Skirvin, and Paul Sullivan for a one-year term. The board unanimously recommends that stockholders vote for the election of each director. The second item is a ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as the company's independent registered certified public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 30th, 2027.
The board and the Audit Committee unanimously recommend that stockholders vote for the ratification of Deloitte's appointment. The third item is a non-binding advisory approval of the compensation of the company's named executive officers, commonly referred to as Say-on-Pay. The board unanimously recommends that stockholders vote for this advisory approval. The final item is a non-binding advisory approval of the frequency of future Say-on-Pay votes. The board of directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote to hold future Say-on-Pay votes every year. We will now move on to the voting results. I now declare the polls closed. The inspector has collected and tabulated the ballots. I will now report the preliminary voting results. A total of approximately 559.8 million shares of the company's common stock, representing 95% of the shares outstanding and eligible to vote, were voted at the annual meeting.
Regarding the election of directors, 99% of the shares voted for Mr. English, 99% of the shares voted for Ms. Goodman, 88% of the shares voted for Mr. Hitch, 97% of the shares voted for Mr. Mahoney, 99% of the shares voted for Ms. Sen, 99% of the shares voted for Mr. Skirvin, and 98% of the shares voted for Mr. Sullivan. 96% of the shares have voted to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche. 88% of the shares have voted in favor of the Say-on-Pay proposal. 99% of the shares have voted in favor of continuing to hold annual Say-on-Pay votes. Final voting results will be reported in a Form 8-K filing with the SEC within four business days. That concludes my report, and I will turn it over to the Chair.
Thank you for attending today's meeting. The meeting is adjourned. We're happy to address any questions from shareholders of record attending today. Karen, have we received any questions?
No questions have been submitted.
As we've received no questions, our program for the day has concluded. Thank you all for attending today's meeting and for your continuing support of the company.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.