Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-005577
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Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 by the shareholder to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not later than the 120th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made.

<div align='center'>ANNUAL REPORT</div>

A copy of the Company’s annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, including the financial statements and notes thereto, is being mailed to the shareholders of record along with this proxy statement and is also available on the Company’s website at www.occfiber.com/investor-relations/under “Proxy Materials”. The annual report is not incorporated by reference in this proxy statement and is not considered to be part of the proxy materials.

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FURTHER INFORMATION</div>

The Company will provide without charge to each person from whom a proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors, upon the written request of any such person, a copy of the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K, including the financial statements and notes thereto, required to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act for the Company’s fiscal year ended October 31, 2024. These materials are available on-line atwww.occfiber.com/investor-relations/under“Proxy Materials”. You may also call the Company toll free at 1-800-622-7711, e-mail the Company atinvestorrelations@occfiber.comor write to the Company at 5290 Concourse Drive, Roanoke, Virginia 24019, attention Ms. Tracy G. Smith, Corporate Secretary, to receive a free copy of the proxy materials. Additionally, the Company’s SEC filings are available to the public on the SEC Internet site (www.sec.gov).

Upon request, the Company will also furnish any other exhibit of the annual report on Form 10-K upon advance payment of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Company related to the Company’s furnishing of such exhibit. Requests for copies of any exhibit should be directed to the Company at its principal executive offices, 5290 Concourse Drive, Roanoke, Virginia 24019, attention Ms. Tracy G. Smith, Corporate Secretary.

| By Order of the Board of Directors |
| Tracy G. Smith                     
 Corporate Secretary                |

Date: February 28, 2025

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Appendix A