Target Announces Voting Results from 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

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Jun 10, 2021, 17:00 ET

MINNEAPOLIS, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) today announced voting results from its 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Shareholders elected 12 members of the board of directors, ratified the appointment of Target's independent registered public accounting firm, approved the "Say on Pay" management proposal, and rejected one shareholder proposal.

The Carideo Group, the independent Inspector of Elections, has certified all voting results for the Annual Meeting, held on June 9, 2021. The final tabulation indicates that approximately 428,260,798 million shares were voted, representing 86.1 percent of outstanding shares.

The final tabulation of votes for each proposal is as follows:

1. Shareholders elected each of the following board nominees for a one-year term by a majority of the votes cast:

Nominee	Percent For	Percent Against
Douglas M. Baker, Jr.	98.3	1.7
George S. Barrett	99.2	0.8
Brian C. Cornell	93.7	6.3
Robert L. Edwards	99.4	0.6
Melanie L. Healey	97.9	2.1
Donald R. Knauss	99.3	0.7
Christine A. Leahy	99.6	0.4
Monica C. Lozano	98.2	1.8
Mary E. Minnick	94.6	5.4
Derica W. Rice	98.5	1.5
Kenneth L. Salazar	98.5	1.5
Dmitri L. Stockton	98.9	1.1

2. Shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Target's independent registered accounting firm for fiscal 2021:

	Percent
For	94.6
Against	5.2
Abstain	0.2

3. Shareholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, Target's executive compensation ("Say on Pay"):

	Percent
For	92.9
Against	7.1

4. Shareholders did not approve a non-binding shareholder proposal to amend the proxy access bylaw to remove the shareholder group limit:

	Percent
For	38.3
Against	60.9
Abstain	0.7

For purposes of determining the level of support needed for a shareholder to be eligible to resubmit a shareholder proposal in a following year the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission uses a simple majority standard. Under that simple majority standard Item 4 received support of 38.6%.

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