Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Standard Motor Products Inc. annual meeting. I will now turn the call over to Eric Sills. Please go ahead.
Thank you, and good morning. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Eric Sills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Motor Products. Welcome to our 2026 annual meeting of shareholders. I call the meeting to order. We're glad that you're able to join us online this year. We hope this virtual format will allow us to connect with a greater number of you. I'd like to begin by introducing the executive officers who are joining me today. James Burke, our Chief Operating Officer and a member of the board, Nathan Iles, our Chief Financial Officer, Carmine Broccole, our Chief Legal Officer, and Tony Cristello, our Vice President of Investor Relations. I would also like to introduce the other members of our board, Alejandro Capparelli, Pamela Forbes Lieberman, Patrick McClymont, Joe McDonnell, Alisa Norris, and Pam Puryear. Our emeritus directors, Larry Sills, Arthur Sills, and Peter Sills.
Finally, I would like to welcome representatives of KPMG, our independent auditors. Rules of conduct for the meeting have been made available to you and are posted on our meeting website. In fairness to all shareholders and in the interest of an orderly meeting, we ask that you abide by these rules. Shareholders of record at the close of business on April 10th, 2026, were sent a formal notice of the annual meeting, along with our proxy statement, form of proxy, and annual report. A copy of the notice and an affidavit of mailing, which states that the notice and related proxy materials were distributed to shareholders on April 21st, 2026, will be made available if any shareholders wish to examine it. The notice and affidavit will be filed with the company records.
A list of all registered shareholders of the company as of the record date and their respective number of shares entitled to vote at the meeting will also be made available if any shareholder wishes to examine the list. This list will be filed with the company records. Carmine Broccole, our Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, has been appointed as the inspector of election to act at this meeting or at any adjournment. He has taken an oath to act as inspector of election, and this oath will be filed with the company records. The inspector of election reports that we have received votes by proxy for 21,056,729 shares of common stock of the company, representing 91% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date.
Shareholders who are logged into the meeting website and who have not yet submitted their proxy to vote may vote now by clicking on the Vote Here button on your screen. The inspector of election has advised that a quorum is present at the meeting, so I declare the meeting duly and lawfully convened. We would now like to present the matters to be voted on at today's meeting. Please note that we will give shareholders an opportunity to comment on the proposals after all proposals have been presented. Comments may be submitted through the meeting website. Matters raised for discussion which do not relate to the proposals will be deferred until the informal portion of the meeting. Proposal number one.
The first item of business to come before this meeting is the election of eight directors to hold office until the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified. The nominees for directors are James Burke, Alejandro Capparelli, Pamela Forbes Lieberman, Patrick McClymont, Joseph McDonnell, Alisa Norris, Pamela Puryear, and myself, Eric Sills. Proposal number two. The second item of business to come before this meeting is management's proposal to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. Proposal number three. The third item of business to come before this meeting is to consider and vote upon a non-binding advisory resolution approving the compensation of our named executive officers or our say on pay vote.
If any shareholder would like to comment on any of the proposals, please submit your comment through the meeting website.
There are no comments on any of the proposals.
I call for a vote on the proposals presented at today's meeting. If you have not already voted or if you wish to change your vote, please do so at this time. I now declare the polls closed with respect to all proposals. The votes have been counted and the preliminary report of the inspector of election indicates that the directors standing for election were elected and proposals number two and three have been approved. I request that the final report of the inspector of election be filed with the company records. We will now address general questions for those in attendance regarding the company. As mentioned earlier, questions may be submitted through the meeting website.
There are no questions at this time.
There being no further questions or comments, I declare the meeting to be adjourned. I want to thank all of you for attending today's meeting and for your continued support of the company.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.