Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009843
Chunk: 47

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 47
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ERENCE</div>

To the extent that this proxy statement is incorporated by reference into any other filing by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, the sections of this Proxy Statement entitled “Compensation Committee Report” and “Audit Committee Report” will not be deemed incorporated, unless specifically provided otherwise in such filing.

Information on our website is not incorporated by reference in and does not form a part of this proxy statement.

<div align='center'>OTHER MATTERS</div>

The Board of the Company is not aware of any matter other than listed in the Notice of Meeting that is to be presented for action at the meeting. If any of the Board’s nominees is unavailable for election as a Director or for good cause will not serve, or if any other matter should properly come before the meeting or any adjournments thereof, it is intended that votes will be cast pursuant to the Proxy in respect thereto in accordance with the best judgment of the person or persons acting as proxies.

<div align='center'>SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS</div>

The deadline for shareholders to submit proposals to be considered for inclusion in the Proxy Statement for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders is November 28, 2025.

Shareholder nominations of a person for possible election as a Director for our 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders must be received by the Company not later than December 28, 2025, and must be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and the requirements set forth in our Amended and Restated Code of Regulations.

Proxies appointed by management will use their discretionary authority to vote the shares they represent as the Board may recommend at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders if a shareholder raises a proposal which is not to be included in our proxy materials for such meeting and we do not receive proper notice of such proposal at our principal executive offices by December 28, 2025. If notice of any such proposal is timely received, the proxy holders may exercise discretionary authority with respect to such proposal only to the extent permitted by applicable SEC rules. Such proposal must in any circumstance be, under applicable law, an appropriate subject for shareholder action in order to be brought before the meeting.

In addition to satisfying the requirements under our Amended and Restated Code of Regulations, to comply with the universal proxy rules, shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must provide notice that sets forth any additional information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act, which