Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-001121
Chunk: 1

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 1
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 nominee named in the Proxy Statement accompanying this Notice to serve on our Board of Directors (our “Board”) for a three-year term ending at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

2. To ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.

3. To approve an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit the liability of certain officers of the Company as permitted by amendments to Delaware law.

4. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

These items of business are more fully described in the Proxy Statement accompanying this Notice. The record date for the Annual Meeting is January 13, 2025. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on that date may vote at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof. We are furnishing our proxy materials to all of our stockholders over the Internet, consistent with the Securities and Exchange Commission rule permitting us to do so, rather than in paper form in order to reduce our environmental impact and lower the costs of printing and distributing our proxy materials. We have mailed our Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials on or about January 24, 2025. You may access our Proxy Statement and Annual Report to Stockholders for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024 at www.proxyvote.com by following the instructions found on the Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials mailed to you. Our Annual Report to Stockholders contains financial and other information about us, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024.

| By Order of the Board |
| /s/ Heather Isely     |
| Heather Isely         
 Corporate Secretary   |

Lakewood, Colorado

January 24, 2025

You are cordially invited to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet. Whether or not you expect to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet, please vote over the telephone or the Internet, as instructed in these materials, as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the Annual Meeting. You may request paper copies of this Proxy Statement and the related proxy materials at no cost to you up to 14 days prior to the Annual Meeting by contacting our Corporate Secretary, Heather Isely, at 12612 West Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, and we will furnish the proxy materials to you within three business days