Your
Annual Meeting Guide 2010
Courtesy of Continental Stock Transfer &
Trust Company

Your Annual
Meeting is an extremely important and visible
event for your company, for your shareholders
and for us, your transfer agent. The months
of planning, the hours of preparation, the
coordination of documents, arrangements, and
people has but one goal: securing the necessary
shareholder votes for the items on the proxy.
Careful forethought and meticulous
planning will be absolutely necessary to ensure
a successful Annual Meeting in 2010. Continental
is available to assist you, but first let us
briefly outine the new "rules of the game."
A major change in proxy rules
occurred in the past few months, when the SEC
eliminated discretionary voting on directors
by brokers, as was previously permitted by
NYSE Rule 452. This Rule, in place for more
than seventy years, permitted brokers to vote
proxies for uncontested directors for all publicly
held companies, even those not listed on the
NYSE,
so long as the beneficial shareholder had not
submitted voting instructions and material
had been mailed in a timely fashion.
To learn more
about the changes and everything you need to
know, just click the "Next
Page" link
below, or click the link that leads to the
section you want to read right now:
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Page | Opening
Page | Introduction| Stage
1: Preparation
Stage
2: Mailing | Stage
3: Vote Tabulation and Annual Meeting
Glossary of Terms
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Stock Transfer & Trust Company
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212.509.4000
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