Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009843
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Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 for the year ending December 31, 2025, and “FOR” the approval of our named executive officer compensation. Please carefully review the Proxy Statement and then complete and sign your Proxy and return it promptly. If you attend the meeting and decide to vote in person, you may withdraw your Proxy at the meeting.

Your time and attention to this letter and the accompanying Proxy Statement and Proxy is appreciated.

Sincerely,

/s/ Michael D. Siegal

Michael D. Siegal

Executive Chairman

March 28, 2025

<div align='center'>Olympic Steel, Inc., 22901 Millcreek Boulevard, Suite 650, Highland Hills, Ohio 44122 (216) 292-3800

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

TO BE HELD MAY 2, 2025</div>

Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Olympic Steel, Inc., an Ohio corporation, which is referred to as the Company, will be held on May 2, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. EST in a virtual meeting format only, via webcast, at meetnow.global/MPWVZU9 for the following purposes:

1. To elect the following nominees as Directors to the class whose two-year term will expire in 2027: Michael D. Siegal, Arthur F. Anton, Richard T. Marabito, Peter J. Scott and Vanessa L. Whiting;

2. To ratify the selection of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2025;

3. To approve, on an advisory basis, our named executive officer compensation; and

4. To transact any other business properly brought before the 2025 Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the 2025 Annual Meeting.

Only shareholders of record of the Company’s common stock on the books of the Company at the close of business on March 10, 2025, will be entitled to vote at the 2025 Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the 2025 Annual Meeting. Shareholders as of the close of business on the record date are entitled to join the live virtual meeting and will be able to listen (or read via closed captioning), vote, and submit questions from any remote location with Internet connectivity. Please refer to the accompanying proxy statement for instructions on how to register for the virtual meeting.