OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2015. Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced today that its stockholders elected as directors the 16 nominees named in the company’s proxy statement and ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company’s independent auditors for 2015. Stockholders also approved the 2014 compensation of the company’s executives named in its proxy statement. Stockholders did not approve the two stockholder proposals presented at the meeting: a proposal requiring the chairman of the board to be an independent director and a proposal requesting a report on the company’s lobbying policies and practices.

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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with \\$1.7 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.  With approximately 266,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States.  Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 29 on Fortune’s 2014 rankings of America’s largest corporations.