Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Utz Brands Inc. 2021 adjourned Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which has been reconvened following the May 6, 2021 decision to adjourn the meeting. Before we get started, I would like to go over a few items so that you know how to participate in today's meeting. You have joined the virtual annual meeting via the following website, www.virtuoshareholdermeeting.com
/uts2021.
You will have the opportunity to submit text questions to today's presenters by typing your question into the question pane of the control panel on the virtual meeting website. You may send in your questions at any time during the meeting. We will collect these questions and address them during the Q and A session at the end of today's stockholder meeting. At this time, I would like to now introduce Roger K. DaraMede, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of U.
S. Brands Incorporated.
Good morning and welcome. As you know, the U. S. Brands Inc. 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders was adjourned on May 6, 2021 and scheduled to reconvene today at 9 am Eastern Time.
As such, the meeting will now be reconvened and come back into order. As previously stated, I'm Roger D'Arameedi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of UHTS Brands Inc. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the management team of the company, we hope that you and your families have fared well during these challenging COVID times. I would also like to thank all those who made it possible to conduct this virtual meeting. We look forward to interacting with our stockholders on today's call.
As I announced on June 6, I will act as Chairman of the meeting and Todd Staub, our Corporate Secretary will serve as Secretary. Representatives of Grant Thornton LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm are also present. At the end of the meeting, Grant Thornton will be available to respond to any appropriate questions from stockholders submitted via the questions pane of the control panel on this virtual meeting website. When you logged into the meeting using your unique control number provided on your proxy card, each of you were presented with the order of business of the meeting, which includes the meeting agenda. Behind the order of business, there is a list of rules of conduct for the meeting.
So that we can conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that the participants abide by these rules. As stated in these rules, stockholders will be on mute for the duration of the meeting. And as noted at the beginning, should you desire to ask a question or provide a comment for discussion during the meeting, you may submit these by typing them in the questions pane of the control panel. You may send in your questions or comments at any time during the meeting. Questions and comments will be collected along with those submitted in advance of the meeting and will be addressed either during the specific proposal to which they relate or if they are not directly related to a particular proposal will be addressed as appropriate during the Q and A session, which will be held at the end of today's meeting.
Thank you for your cooperation with these rules. I now ask Mr. Staub to give the Secretary's report on the qualification of this meeting to proceed.
Thanks, Roger. This meeting is held pursuant to a written notice mailed to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 15, 2021. The notice mailed to all stockholders was accompanied by the proxy statement, the form of proxy and the annual report for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2021 as was amended on May 13, 2021. These documents will be filed with the records of this meeting. In addition, the proxies and the certified list of stockholders are in the custody of the Inspector of Inlexis.
Also as I announced on May 6, that Topic has been appointed Inspector of Elections and has taken the oath of office, which has been filed with the company's records. Mr. Staub, do we have a quorum?
Yes. The Inspector of Elections has reported that at least a majority and voting power of the stock issued and outstanding capital stock and entitled to vote are represented at this meeting either attending the meeting or representing by proxy. This constitutes a quorum of the stockholders and all legal requirements for holding this meeting have been satisfied.
As such, the meeting is lawfully convened and ready to transact business. You have received a copy of the order of business, which includes the matters to be submitted to a vote of the stockholders. At this time, the polls are now open. Stockholders who have sent in proxies do not need to take further action at this time. If you have not sent in a proxy, you can vote on this website.
We will now proceed to the matters to be voted on. The first item of business is a proposal to elect John W. Altmaier, Jason K. Giordano and B. John Lindeman as Class 1 members of the Board of Directors, each to serve for a 3 year term.
Are there any questions or points of discussion concerning the election of directors? Being none, the second item of business is a proposal to approve and adopt the Utz Brands Inc. 2021 employee stock purchase plan. Are there any questions or points of discussion concerning the approval of the 2021 employee stock purchase plan? Being none, the 3rd item of business is a proposal to ratify the selection by our Audit Committee of Grant Thornton LLP to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending January 3, January 2, 2022.
Are there any questions or points of discussion concerning this approval of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 2, 2022. Being none, we would like to ensure though that stockholders have ample time to vote this meeting. If you have not yet voted and wish to vote, please take the time to vote now. We'll take a brief pause to allow you to give you time to vote. Hopefully now everyone has had a chance to vote.
I thereby declare the polls are closed. The Inspector of Elections will now tabulate the votes and report the preliminary results before the close of the meeting. I have been advised by the Inspector of Elections that the tallies are now available. I will ask the secretary to read them.
On the proposal to elect John W. Altmyer, Jason K. Giordano and B. John Lindeman as Class 1 members of the Board of Directors each to serve for a 3 year term, the Inspector of Election advises that each of John W. Altmaier, Jason K.
Giordano and B. John Lindeman has received a plurality of the votes cast from the holders of shares either attending this meeting or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of directors. On the proposal to approve the 2021 employee stock purchase plan, the Inspector of Elections advises that holders of a majority of the votes cast either attending this meeting or by proxy at the annual meeting have voted to approve such plan. On the proposal to ratify the selection by our audit committee of Grant Thornton LLP to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending January 2, 2022, the Inspector of Elections advises that holders of a majority of the votes cast either attending this meeting or by proxy at the annual meeting have voted to ratify the appointment. So Mr.
Chairman, the final results of the stockholder vote reflecting all proxies received by mail through the close of this meeting and any votes cast during this meeting with respect to each of the proposals will be included in the final report of the Inspector of Elections and will be published in a Form 8 ks within 4 business days after the final results are known and will be available upon request.
Thank you, Mr. Stobbe. There being no further business, this meeting is now adjourned. I'd now like to introduce Dylan Lissette, the Chief Executive Officer of UHTS Brands Inc. Dylan?
Thank you, Mr. D'Aramidi and Mr. Staub. I want to thank you for attending today's virtual meeting and for the support you have shown for UTS Brands Incorporated. As there are no further questions from stockholders, We will continue on.
During this period of no further questions, I thank you very much for joining us today for our 20 21 Annual Meeting and for being a stockholder of us.
This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining and have a pleasant day.