Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-001121
Chunk: 49

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 49
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% of our Common Stock or their immediate family members) has or will have a direct or indirect material interest. The chair of the audit committee and the Company’s General Counsel are required to be notified of any actual or intended Related Party Transaction. The full audit committee is required to review each Related Party Transaction. The audit committee may approve or ratify a Related Party Transaction only if it determines such transaction is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders.

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OTHER MATTERS</div>

The Board knows of no other matters that will be presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting. If any other matters are properly brought before the Annual Meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the accompanying proxy to vote on such matters in accordance with their best judgment.

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

January 24, 2025

A copy of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024 is available without charge upon written request to: Corporate Secretary, 12612 West Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado 80228.

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Appendix A

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE, INC.</div>

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc., (the “”) a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as set forth in Title 8 of the Delaware Code (the “”), hereby certifies as follows:

| 1. | The name of the Corporation is Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. |

| 2. | The Board of Directors of the Corporation, acting in accordance with the provisions of Sections 141 and 242 of the DGCL, adopted resolutions to amend the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, in the section noted below, as follows: |

Section 10.1 of Article 10 is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“. No director or officer of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, as applicable, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under Section 102(b)(7) the Delaware General