Brookdale Announces Shareholders Have Elected All Eight of the Company's Directors Based on Preliminary Results
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), the nation's leading senior living community operator, announced that shareholders have elected all eight of the company's director nominees at its 2025 Annual Meeting. The preliminary results show majority support for Jordan Asher, Claudia Drayton, Mark Fioravanti, Victoria Freed, Joshua Hausman, Elizabeth Mace, Denise Warren, and Lee Wielansky.
The company operates 645 communities across 41 states with capacity to serve approximately 58,000 residents as of June 30, 2025. Brookdale remains focused on five key initiatives: improving operations, optimizing real estate portfolio, reinvesting capital, reducing leverage, and maintaining high-quality environments for residents and associates.
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), il principale operatore di comunità per anziani negli Stati Uniti, ha annunciato che gli azionisti hanno eletto tutti e otto i candidati al consiglio di amministrazione durante l'Assemblea Annuale del 2025. I risultati preliminari mostrano un ampio sostegno per Jordan Asher, Claudia Drayton, Mark Fioravanti, Victoria Freed, Joshua Hausman, Elizabeth Mace, Denise Warren e Lee Wielansky.
L'azienda gestisce 645 comunità in 41 stati, con una capacità di servire circa 58.000 residenti al 30 giugno 2025. Brookdale continua a concentrarsi su cinque iniziative chiave: migliorare le operazioni, ottimizzare il portafoglio immobiliare, reinvestire il capitale, ridurre l'indebitamento e mantenere ambienti di alta qualità per residenti e collaboratori.
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), el principal operador de comunidades para personas mayores en el paÃs, anunció que los accionistas eligieron a los ocho candidatos a directores de la compañÃa en su Asamblea Anual de 2025. Los resultados preliminares muestran un apoyo mayoritario para Jordan Asher, Claudia Drayton, Mark Fioravanti, Victoria Freed, Joshua Hausman, Elizabeth Mace, Denise Warren y Lee Wielansky.
La empresa opera 645 comunidades en 41 estados con capacidad para atender a aproximadamente 58,000 residentes al 30 de junio de 2025. Brookdale sigue centrada en cinco iniciativas clave: mejorar las operaciones, optimizar la cartera inmobiliaria, reinvertir capital, reducir el apalancamiento y mantener entornos de alta calidad para residentes y asociados.
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Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE : BKD), principal opérateur de communautés pour personnes âgées aux États-Unis, a annoncé que les actionnaires ont élu les huit candidats au conseil d'administration lors de l'Assemblée annuelle 2025. Les résultats préliminaires montrent un soutien majoritaire pour Jordan Asher, Claudia Drayton, Mark Fioravanti, Victoria Freed, Joshua Hausman, Elizabeth Mace, Denise Warren et Lee Wielansky.
L'entreprise exploite 645 communautés dans 41 États, avec une capacité d'accueil d'environ 58 000 résidents au 30 juin 2025. Brookdale reste concentrée sur cinq initiatives clés : améliorer les opérations, optimiser le portefeuille immobilier, réinvestir le capital, réduire l'endettement et maintenir des environnements de haute qualité pour les résidents et les collaborateurs.
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), der führende Betreiber von Seniorenwohnanlagen in den USA, gab bekannt, dass die Aktionäre alle acht Direktorkandidaten des Unternehmens auf der Hauptversammlung 2025 gewählt haben. Die vorläufigen Ergebnisse zeigen eine Mehrheitsunterstützung für Jordan Asher, Claudia Drayton, Mark Fioravanti, Victoria Freed, Joshua Hausman, Elizabeth Mace, Denise Warren und Lee Wielansky.
Das Unternehmen betreibt 645 Gemeinschaften in 41 Bundesstaaten mit einer Kapazität von etwa 58.000 Bewohnern zum 30. Juni 2025. Brookdale konzentriert sich weiterhin auf fünf zentrale Initiativen: Verbesserung der Abläufe, Optimierung des Immobilienportfolios, Reinvestition von Kapital, Reduzierung der Verschuldung und die Aufrechterhaltung hochwertiger Umgebungen für Bewohner und Mitarbeiter.
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- Ongoing challenges with leverage reduction mentioned as a key initiative
- Facing industry pressures including wage inflation and labor market competition
- Exposed to risks from senior housing construction and increased market competition
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Brookdale shareholders endorsed management's vision by electing all company-nominated directors despite apparent activist pressure.
The shareholder vote represents a significant governance milestone for Brookdale, with investors clearly backing the current leadership team and strategic direction. This outcome wasn't necessarily guaranteed given the references to an activist challenge in the forward-looking statements section ("actions of activist stockholders, including as a result of the current proxy contest"). The successful defense against what appears to be an activist campaign provides management with a renewed mandate to execute their five-point strategy.
The election validates the board's current approach focused on operational improvements, real estate optimization, capital reinvestment, leverage reduction, and resident/associate experience enhancement. Particularly noteworthy is shareholder support coming amid the complexity of running 645 communities across 41 states in the challenging senior living sector.
This governance stability eliminates potential disruption that leadership changes might have caused, allowing management to maintain momentum in their strategic initiatives. While the release doesn't detail the margin of victory or specific activist demands, the outcome suggests investors believe the current board has the right skill set to navigate industry challenges and capitalize on the demographic tailwinds in senior housing. The vote reflects confidence that Brookdale's strategic initiatives are properly aligned with long-term value creation despite any short-term pressures that may have motivated the activist challenge.
Brookdale issued the following statement:
We thank our shareholders for the confidence that they have shown in our Board and our strategy to create shareholder value, and greatly appreciate the strong showing of support to elect all eight of the Company's director nominees. We remain focused on executing our five key initiatives â€� improving operating performance, optimizing our real estate portfolio, reinvesting capital into communities, reducing leverage and ensuring high-quality environments for residents and associates. With our strong momentum so far this year, we are confident Brookdale is well-positioned for success as we capitalize on robust demographic and industry tailwinds. Ìý
The preliminary results also indicated that shareholders approved all other proposals submitted for a vote at the Annual Meeting. The results announced today are considered preliminary until final results are tabulated and certified by the independent Inspector of Elections. Brookdale will report final results on a Form 8-K that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ABOUT BROOKDALE SENIOR LIVING
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is the nation's premier operator of senior living communities. With 645Ìýcommunities across 41 states and the ability to serve approximately 58,000 residents as of June 30,Ìý2025, Brookdale is committed to its mission of enriching the lives of seniors through compassionateÌýcare, clinical expertise, and exceptional service. The Company, through its affiliates, operatesÌýindependent living, assisted living, memory care, and continuing care retirement communities, offeringÌýtailored solutions that help empower seniors to live with dignity, connection, and purpose. LeveragingÌýdeep expertise in healthcare, hospitality, and real estate, Brookdale creates opportunities for wellness, personal growth, and meaningful relationships in settings that feel like home. Guided by its four cornerstones of passion, courage, partnership, and trust, Brookdale is committed to deliveringÌýexceptional value and redefining senior living for a brighter, healthier future. Brookdale's stock trades onÌýthe New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BKD. For more information, visit or connect with Brookdale onâ€� or .
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this communication may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties and include all statements that are not historical statements of fact and those regarding the Company's intent, belief, or expectations. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "on track," "potential," "intend," "enable," "expect," "endeavor," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "executing," "believe," "poised," "positioned," "project," "predict," "continue," "plan," "target," or other similar words or expressions, and include statements regarding the focus of the Board of Directors and management of the Company, the execution and advancement of the Company's strategy, the Company's CEO search process, the Company's ability to continue to successfully execute on key initiatives, deliver positive financial and operational performance and drive enhanced shareholder value. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations, and the Company's ability to predict results or the actual effect of future plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Although the Company believes that expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its assumptions or expectations will be attained and actual results and performance could differ materially from those projected. Factors which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's operations and future prospects or which could cause events or circumstances to differ from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, events which adversely affect the ability of seniors to afford resident fees, including downturns in the economy, housing market, consumer confidence, or the equity markets and unemployment among resident family members; the effects of senior housing construction and development, lower industry occupancy, and increased competition; conditions of housing markets, regulatory changes, acts of nature, and the effects of climate change in geographic areas where the Company is concentrated; terminations of the Company's resident agreements and vacancies in the living spaces it leases; changes in reimbursement rates, methods, or timing under governmental reimbursement programs including the Medicare and Medicaid programs; failure to maintain the security and functionality of the Company's information systems, to prevent a cybersecurity attack or breach, or to comply with applicable privacy and consumer protection laws, including HIPAA; the Company's ability to complete its capital expenditures in accordance with its plans; the Company's ability to identify and pursue development, investment, and acquisition opportunities and its ability to successfully integrate acquisitions; competition for the acquisition of assets; the Company's ability to complete pending or expected disposition, acquisition, or other transactions on agreed upon terms or at all, including in respect of the satisfaction of closing conditions, the risk that regulatory approvals are not obtained or are subject to unanticipated conditions, and uncertainties as to the timing of closing, and the Company's ability to identify and pursue any such opportunities in the future; risks related to the implementation of the Company's strategy, including initiatives undertaken to execute on the Company's strategic priorities and their effect on its results; any resurgence or variants of the COVID-19 pandemic; limits on the Company's ability to use net operating loss carryovers to reduce future tax payments; delays in obtaining regulatory approvals; the risks associated with tariffs and the uncertain duration of trade conflicts; disruptions in the financial markets or decreases in the appraised values or performance of the Company's communities that affect the Company's ability to obtain financing or extend or refinance debt as it matures and the Company's financing costs; the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash flow to cover required interest, principal, and long-term lease payments and to fund its planned capital projects; the effect of any non-compliance with any of the Company's debt or lease agreements (including the financial or other covenants contained therein), including the risk of lenders or lessors declaring a cross default in the event of the Company's non-compliance with any such agreements and the risk of loss of the Company's property securing leases and indebtedness due to any resulting lease terminations and foreclosure actions; the inability to renew, restructure, or extend leases, or exercise purchase options at or prior to the end of any existing lease term; the effect of the Company's indebtedness and long-term leases on the Company's liquidity and its ability to operate its business; increases in market interest rates that increase the costs of the Company's debt obligations; the Company's ability to obtain additional capital on terms acceptable to it; departures of key officers and potential disruption caused by changes in management; increased competition for, or a shortage of, associates, wage pressures resulting from increased competition, low unemployment levels, minimum wage increases and changes in overtime laws, and union activity; environmental contamination at any of the Company's communities; failure to comply with existing environmental laws; an adverse determination or resolution of complaints filed against the Company, including putative class action complaints; negative publicity with respect to any lawsuits, claims, or other legal or regulatory proceedings; costs to respond to, and adverse determinations resulting from, government inquiries, reviews, audits, and investigations; the cost and difficulty of complying with increasing and evolving regulation, including new disclosure obligations; changes in, or its failure to comply with, employment-related laws and regulations; the risks associated with current global economic conditions and general economic factors on the Company and the Company's business partners such as inflation, commodity costs, fuel and other energy costs, competition in the labor market, costs of salaries, wages, benefits, and insurance, interest rates, tax rates, tariffs, geopolitical tensions or conflicts, and uncertainty surrounding a new presidential administration, the impact of seasonal contagious illness or other contagious disease in the markets in which the Company operates; actions of activist stockholders, including as a result of the current proxy contest and any potential change of control of the Company or the Board; as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including those set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. When considering forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in such SEC filings. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's views as of the date of this communication. The Company cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements, and, except as required by law, it expressly disclaims any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this communication to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto or change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any statement is based.
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