Green Bay Packers shareholders meet at Lambeau Field on Monday
GREEN BAY – The annual Green Bay Packers shareholders’ meeting will include major changes from what team owners normally experience.
For starters, the meeting will be after the first training camp practice of the year. It will be in the afternoon, and will be the first meeting after the Packers announced Ed Policy will succeed Mark Murphy next year as chairman, president and CEO of the organization. Murphy will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 in July 2025.
The meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m., July 22, in the Lambeau Field bowl. The opening training camp public practice will be at 10:30 a.m. that day at Ray Nitschke Field. Training camp starts two days earlier than normal because the Packers’ opening game, against the Philadelphia Eagles in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 6, is on a Friday, two days earlier than most of the rest of the league schedule.
What’s the forecast for the shareholders’ meeting?
Meetings normally are at 11 a.m., which is hot enough, but this year’s meeting begins at 3 p.m., often the hottest part of the day. The forecast is for mostly sunny and 83, but it will feel warmer than that in the bowl because of all the concrete and metal bleachers. Umbrellas are not allowed in the bowl, so attendees should come prepared.
Fans will be allowed to bring unopened bottles of water into the stadium. Water also will be available at concession stands.
The meeting will be held, rain or shine. If weather becomes a factor, the meeting will move indoors, with shareholders able to watch on video screens.
Atrium, Pro Shop will remain open to the public all day
Normally, Lambeau Field is closed to the general public until after the shareholders meeting, but because the first training camp practice will be in the morning before the meeting, the atrium will be open to the pubic all day, beginning at 8 a.m. The Packers Pro Shop and Packers Hall of Fame museum open at 9 a.m. 1919 Kitchen & Tap opens at 11 a.m. Johnsonville Tailgate Village is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parking lots open at 6 a.m. Parking is free, but on a first-come, first-served basis. Because training camp practice and the shareholders meeting are not normally held on the same day, lots might be more full than usual.
The Pro Shop will carry items available to shareholders only, as it normally does. Shareholder identification will be required to purchase those items.
All services at Lambeau Field are cashless.
Packers shareholders can enter the stadium bowl at 1 p.m.
The Lambeau Field Atrium opens to the public at 8 a.m. Monday through the Miller Lite, American Family Insurance and Oneida Gates. The bowl, accessible to ticketed shareholders and their guests only, will open at 1 p.m. for the 3 p.m. meeting.
Packers stadium tours are available Monday morning. Tickets can be purchased in advance at at packershofandtours.com.
Here’s what to expect during the meeting
The meeting will open with presentations by Mark Murphy, president and CEO, who talks about Packers-related news and sometimes makes new announcements, and General Manager Brian Gutekunst, who provides some basic information about the roster, but nothing that can be put to any good or nefarious use.
Expect Murphy to share some thoughts about the selection of Policy to succeed him when he retires after next year’s meeting.
Their appearances will be followed by the leaders of the organization’s various committees, including the financial report. It is, after all, an actual business meeting.
Results of the shareholder vote on new directors will be announced.
The meeting likely will be in the neighborhood of an hour and a half.
Newscaster and Packers announcer Bill Jartz among board of director nominees
Newscaster and Packers gameday announcer Bill Jartz and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chancellor Michael Alexander are nominees to the board of directors. Three directors who have reached mandatory retirement age, will move to emeritus status. Leaving the current 43-member board will be vice president and lead director Susan Finco, Tom Cardella and Johnnie Gray.
Attendance for the meeting was more than 7,800 last year
In 2023, the meeting was attend by 7,825 shareholders and their guests, with another 1,200 shareholders watching a livestream of the event. Over the years, normal attendance was 8,000 to 12,000 shareholders and guests. Record attendance was 18,707 in 1998.
The Packers have 538,967 shareholders who own 5,204,625 shares. Shares do not pay dividends and cannot be publicly traded, but can be transferred to family members.
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