Company: APT
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-013635
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Company: ALPHA PRO TECH LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 the Board of Directors in person at a shareholders meeting. Section 2.12 of the Company’s Bylaws provides for procedures pursuant to which shareholders may nominate a candidate for election as a director of the Company. The chair of the meeting shall have the power to determine and declare to the meeting whether or not a nomination was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in our Bylaws and, if the chair determines that a nomination is not in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Bylaws, to declare to the meeting that the defective nomination will be disregarded. A copy of the Bylaws is available in the “Corporate Governance” section of our website, www.alphaprotech.com. In addition to satisfying the requirements under our Bylaws, to comply with the SEC’s universal proxy rules, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must provide notice to the Company that complies with the information and timing requirements of Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act.

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Shareholder Communications with the Board of Directors

The Board will give appropriate attention to written communications that are submitted by shareholders and will respond as the Board deems appropriate. Absent unusual circumstances or as contemplated by committee charters, the Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee primarily will be responsible for monitoring communications from shareholders and providing copies or summaries of such communications to the other directors as he deems appropriate. Communications will be forwarded to all directors if such communications relate to substantive matters and include suggestions or comments that the Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee considers important.

Shareholders and other interested parties who wish to send communications on any topic to the Board should address such communications to the Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, c/o Secretary of Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd., 53 Wellington Street East, Aurora, Ontario, Canada L4G 1H6.

All written communications to the Company’s Board will be relayed to the Nominating/Governance Committee without being screened by management.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

During 2024, the Compensation Committee, which establishes the compensation of the Company’s executive officers, was comprised of Messrs. John Ritota (Chairman), James Buchan and David R. Garcia. During 2024, no executive officer of the Company served as (i) a member of a compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee