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 UNITED STATES
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
Washington, D.C. 20549

 
  FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
 
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) May 18, 2016
 
 
 ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware
001-16797
54-2049910
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(Commission File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 
5008 Airport Road, Roanoke, Virginia
24012
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant's telephone number, including area code (540) 362-4911
 
Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
 
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INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT

Item 5.02  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
 
At the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (“Company”) held May 18, 2016, the Company’s stockholders re-elected John F. Bergstrom, John C. Brouillard, Brad W. Buss, Fiona P. Dias, John F. Ferraro, Thomas R. Greco, Adriana Karaboutis, Eugene I. Lee, Jr., William S. Oglesby, Reuben E. Slone and Jeffrey C. Smith to serve as members of the Company’s Board of Directors (“Board”) until the 2017 annual meeting of stockholders. Following the annual meeting and effective May 18, 2016, J. Paul Raines, Gilbert T. Ray, Carlos A. Saladrigas, O. Temple Sloan III and Jimmie L. Wade, who had previously served as directors, retired from the Board.

Effective May 18, 2016, the Board restructured its Committees in order to fill the vacancies created by the departure of retiring directors. All of the directors appointed as members of the Board’s Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, as reconstituted and listed below, have been determined by the Board to be independent under the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange.

Audit Committee
Brad W. Buss        Chair
John F. Ferraro    
Adriana Karaboutis
Reuben E. Slone

Compensation Committee
John F. Bergstrom    Chair
Fiona P. Dias
Eugene I. Lee, Jr.

Finance Committee
William S. Oglesby     Chair
John C. Brouillard
Brad W. Buss
Fiona P. Dias
Reuben E. Slone

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
John F. Ferraro    Chair
Eugene I. Lee, Jr.
Adriana Karaboutis

In other actions, the Board appointed director Jeffrey C. Smith as the independent Chair of the Board, effective May 18, 2016, to succeed Executive Chair John C. Brouillard, who will continue to serve as a non-independent director. In addition, John F. Ferraro will no longer serve as Lead Independent Director but will continue to serve as an independent director. Mr. Ferraro and Brad W. Buss were designated as Audit Committee financial experts.
    
  





Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

(a)
The 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company was held on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. The following matters were submitted to a vote by the stockholders: (1) election of eleven directors to serve as members of the Board until the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, (2) non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, (3) ratification of the appointment of Deloitte and Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2016, (4) approval of a proposal to amend the Company's certificate of incorporation to eliminate the one year holding period requirement for stockholders to call a special meeting and (5) a non-binding advisory vote on a stockholder proposal regarding the ability of stockholders to act by written consent.

All nominees were elected to the Board of Directors with the following vote counts:

 
 
FOR
 
WITHHELD
 
John F. Bergstrom
 
61,090,524
 
 
695,536
 
John C. Brouillard
 
61,049,598
 
 
736,462
 
Brad W. Buss
 
61,570,707
 
 
215,353
 
Fiona P. Dias
 
61,520,020
 
 
266,040
 
John F. Ferraro
 
61,278,609
 
 
507,451
 
Thomas R. Greco
 
60,976,609
 
 
809,451
 
Adriana Karaboutis
 
61,533,878
 
 
252,182
 
Eugene I. Lee, Jr.
 
61,505,622
 
 
280,438
 
William S. Oglesby
 
61,479,982
 
 
306,078
 
Reuben E. Slone
 
61,570,912
 
 
215,148
 
Jeffrey C. Smith
 
61,403,878
 
 
382,182
 

There were 2,769,251 broker non-votes recorded for each nominee.

The compensation of the named executive officers was approved by the following non-binding advisory vote:
                          
FOR
AGAINST
ABSTENTIONS
BROKER
NON-VOTES
51,085,092
10,357,588
343,380
2,769,251
                            






Stockholders also ratified the appointment of Deloitte and Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2016. The vote on the proposal was as follows:

FOR
AGAINST
ABSTENTIONS
64,111,992
342,090
101,229


The proposal to amend the Company's certificate of incorporation to eliminate the one year holding period requirement for stockholders to call a special meeting:

FOR
AGAINST
ABSTENTIONS
BROKER
NON-VOTES
61,650,270
35,666
100,124
2,769,251

A majority of the Company’s outstanding shares (53.97% of shares voted) were cast against the non-binding advisory stockholder proposal regarding the ability of stockholders to act by written consent. The vote on the proposal was as follows:

FOR
AGAINST
ABSTENTIONS
BROKER
NON-VOTES
28,259,473
33,348,264
178,323
2,769,251






SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, INC.
 
 
(Registrant)
 
 
 
Date: May 24, 2016
 
/s/ Michael A. Norona
 
 
(Signature)*
 
 
Michael A. Norona
 
 
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
* Print name and title of the signing officer under his signature.