Company: CULP
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-109242
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Company: CULP INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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 Advisory vote to approve executive compensation                            |
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| Place:                             | CULP Innovation Center at Congdon Yards410 W. English RoadHigh Point, North Carolina 27262                                                                                                                                      |                |                                                                            |
| Record Date:                       | July 29, 2025                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |                |                                                                            |
| Voting:                            | Shareholders of record as of the close of business on the record date are entitled to vote. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote for each director nominee and one vote for each of the proposals to be voted on. |                |                                                                            |
| Number of Shares Entitled to Vote: | The number of outstanding shares entitled to vote at the meeting is 12,605,306.                                                                                                                                                 |                |                                                                            |

How to vote See “ General Information ” (beginning on page 8) for more information. In addition to attending the annual meeting, shareholders of record can vote by any of the following methods:

| By mailing your proxy card | By Telephone at1-800-652-VOTE (8683)(within the USA, US territories, and Canada only) | By internet atwww.investorvote.com/CULP |

If you hold your Culp shares in street name through an account with a bank, broker, or other nominee, your ability to vote by internet or telephone depends on the voting process of the bank, broker, or other nominees through which you hold the shares. Please follow their instructions carefully.

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Voting recommendations

| Proposal                                                                                 | Board Vote Recommendation   |
| Election of eight directors (see page 12)                                                | “FOR” each director nominee |
| Ratification of Grant Thornton as our independent auditors for fiscal 2026 (see page 56) | “FOR”                       |
| Advisory vote to approve executive compensation (see page 57)                            | “FOR”                       |

Our director nominees See “ Proposal 1 – Election of Directors ” (beginning on page 12 ) and “ Corporate Governance ” (beginning on page 18 ) for more information. We are managed under the direction of our board of directors (the "Board of Directors" or "Board"), which is currently composed of eight members. The Board of Directors recommends that you vote “FOR” each of the eight nominees listed in the table below, which provides summary information about each nominee.