Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-001800
Chunk: 4

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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 22,931,226 shares of Common Stock were issued and outstanding. Stockholders are entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held as of the Record Date on any proposal presented at the Annual Meeting.

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How do I vote and ask questions?

Stockholders of Record.If your shares are registered directly in your name with our transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, you are considered a stockholder of record with respect to those shares, and the Notice has been sent directly to you. Please carefully consider the information contained in this Proxy Statement. Whether or not you plan to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet, we urge you to follow the instructions provided to you regarding how to vote so that we can be assured of having a quorum present at the Annual Meeting and so that your shares may be voted in accordance with your wishes even if you later decide not to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet. You may vote via the Internet at www.proxyvote.com by using the procedures and instructions described in the Notice. You may also vote by telephone by calling 1-800-690-6903. Both Internet and telephone voting provide easy-to-follow instructions and have procedures designed to authenticate your identity and permit you to confirm that your voting instructions are accurately reflected. You may vote by mail by completing and mailing in a paper proxy card, which you must request by following the instructions contained in the Notice. If you virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet, you may vote in person even if you have previously voted by phone or via the Internet or returned a proxy card by mail, and your in-person vote will supersede any vote previously cast.

Street Name Holders.If, like many stockholders of the Company, you hold your shares in “street name” through a broker, bank or other nominee rather than directly in your own name, you are considered the beneficial owner of those shares, and the Notice is being forwarded to you by your broker, bank or other nominee. Please carefully consider the information contained in this Proxy Statement and, whether or not you plan to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet, vote by one of the methods permitted by your bank or broker so that we can be assured of having a quorum present at the Annual Meeting and so that your shares may be voted in accordance with your wishes even if you later decide not to virtually attend the Annual Meeting via the Internet. Street name holders must follow voting instructions from their banks or brokers and may be able to vote by