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Flowers Foods 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard Institutional Index Fund is the largest fund in the Flowers Foods plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.
The question on the ballot
As filed
Flowers Foods 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $3,230 per active participant
- $34m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $3,710 each
- $39m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $71,300
- 12,374 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $883m
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 10,520 active participants, including anyone who did not contribute. The filing reports dollars, not the match formula; the plan’s summary plan description states the formula.
SourceThe plan’s annual report to the Department of Labor — Form 5500, Schedule H, plan year 2024 · filed by FLOWERS FOODS, INC. as “FLOWERS FOODS, INC. 401(K) RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 582582379, plan number 004 · search the filings
These are the funds in the Flowers Foods retirement plan whose voting records we can trace, taken from the plan’s own annual filing. The figures show what each one did with shareholder proposals.
SourceThe fund menu is the list of investments in Flowers Foods’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing
| Fund | Climate | Workers | Pay equity | Exec pay backed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Institutional Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Institutional Index Fun d” | 0 of 66 | 0 of 20 | 0 of 6 | 97.8% |
| Dodge & Cox Stock Fund listed as “Dodge & Cox Stock X” | 0 of 15 | 0 of 5 | 0 of 1 | 95.1% |
| Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Total Intl Stock Index Inst l” | 0 of 95 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 4 | 83.1% |
| Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Small Cap Index Inst l” | 0 of 17 | 0 of 2 | 0 of 3 | 96.6% |
| Segall Bryant & Hamill Small Cap Value Fund listed as “Seagall Bryant & Hamill SM CP VAL IN S” | 1 of 1 | — | — | 87.3% |
What this means for you
Most people are in whichever fund their plan made the default, and never look again. The figures above are the part nobody shows you when you pick: not the fee, not last year's return, but what the fund did with the shares your savings paid for.
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