On January 22, 2021, Starbucks Corporation announced that it has filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against a proposal from James McRitchie urging the Company board to adopt a policy of promoting significant representation of employee perspectives among corporate decision makers by requiring the initial list of candidates from which new director nominees are chosen by the Nominations and Governance Committee include non-management employees at the Company’s annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on March 17, 2021.