On January 27, 2020, Starbucks Corporation filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal, requesting that the Company issue a public report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting ‘viewpoint’ and ‘ideology’ from its written equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy, submitted by The National Center for Public Policy Research at the Company annual meeting scheduled to be held on March 18, 2020.