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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on March 11, 2019.

 

Adient plc

 

  Adient plc

  25-28 NORTH WALL QUAY

  IFSC, DUBLIN 1

  IRELAND

 

 

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Meeting Information

 

Meeting Type:   Annual General Meeting
For holders as of:   January 11, 2019
Date:  March 11, 2019       Time:    1:00 PM Local Time
Location:    Radisson Blu Hotel

Dublin Airport

Dublin, Ireland

 

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              Voting Items                         
 

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following:

 

1.  Election of Directors

 

     Nominees:

  

 

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3.

 

  
               
 

        1a.     John M. Barth

 

        1b.     Julie L. Bushman

        

2.  To ratify, by non-binding advisory vote, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditor for fiscal year 2019 and to authorize, by binding vote, the Board of Directors, acting through the Audit Committee, to set the auditors’ remuneration.

 

3.  To approve, on an advisory basis, our named executive officer compensation.

 

In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote on such matters as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments thereof.

  
      

 

        1c.     Peter H. Carlin    

 

        
          1d.     Raymond L. Conner          
 

 

        1e.     Douglas G. Del Grosso

     
 

 

        1f.     Richard Goodman

 

        
          1g.     Frederick A. Henderson            
 

 

        1h.     Barb J. Samardzich

           
          
             

 

 

 

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