Edgar Filing: ROPER INDUSTRIES INC

ROPER INDUSTRIES, INC.

(Registrant)

Date: May 22, 2014

/s/ David B. Liner

David B. Liner

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

May 21, 2014

DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED)

ROPER INDUSTRIES, INC.

(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

DELAWARE

(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION)


1-12273		51-0263969
(COMMISSION FILE NUMBER)		(IRS EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)


6901 PROFESSIONAL PKWY. EAST, SUITE 200, SARASOTA, FLORIDA		34240
(ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)		(ZIP CODE)

(941) 556-2601

(REGISTRANT’S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE)

(FORMER NAME OR ADDRESS, IF CHANGED SINCE LAST REPORT)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.07

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Roper Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 21, 2014 in Sarasota, Florida. A brief description of each of the proposals submitted to the stockholders and the votes cast are set forth below. Each director nominee was re-elected and all of the proposals passed.

Proposal 1: Election of two directors.

Each of the directors identified below was re-elected at the 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for a one-year term expiring at the 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.


	For	Withheld / Abstain	Broker Non-Votes
Robert F. Wallman	78,777,112	6,483,149	3,637,112
Christopher Wright	82,623,647	2,636,614	3,637,112

Proposal 2: A non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the related material disclosed in the Proxy Statement.


Votes For	Votes Against	Abstentions	Broker Non-Votes
68,070,825	16,890,739	298,697	3,637,112

Proposal 3: Ratification of appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2014.


Votes For	Votes Against	Abstentions	Broker Non-Votes
87,880,728	796,898	219,747	0

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.