On October 17, 2018, Campbell Soup Company announced that 4 shareholders, all of John T. Dorrance, the inventor of the Company, each separately notified the Chairman of the Board on behalf of themselves and certain family members of their intention to vote for the current Company Board of Directors at the upcoming annual meeting of shareholders, scheduled to be held on November 29, 2018. The Company stated that Bennett Dorrance, Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, Archbold van Beuren, and Charlotte C. Weber and certain of their family members collectively represent approximately 41 percent of the Company’s shares outstanding. The Company added that Bennett Dorrance, Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, and Archbold van Beuren serve on the Company’s Board.