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
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 to vote their shares and confirm that their instructions have been properly recorded. A shareholder of record or registered shareholder is a shareholder whose ownership of common stock is reflected directly on the books and records of the Company’s transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. If you hold common stock through an account with a bank, broker, or similar organization, you are considered the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name” and are not a shareholder of record. For shares held in street name, the shareholder of record is your bank, broker, or similar organization. The Company only has access to ownership records for the registered shares. If you hold your shares in street name, your ability to vote by internet or telephone depends on the voting process of the bank, broker, or other nominee through which you hold the shares. Please follow their directions carefully. If you want to vote at the meeting, you must obtain a legal proxy appointment from your bank, broker, or other nominee and present that legal proxy appointment, together with proof of your identity, to Company officials as you attend the meeting. If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of our directors (Proposal 1 of this Proxy Statement) and in the advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers ("Say-on-Pay" vote) (Proposal 3 of this Proxy Statement). As a result of current regulations, your bank or broker is not allowed to vote your uninstructed shares on a discretionary basis on matters related to the election of directors or executive compensation. Thus, if you hold your shares in street name and you do not instruct your bank or broker how to vote in the election of directors and the Say-on-Pay advisory vote, no votes will be cast on your behalf with respect to the proposals for which you did not provide voting instructions. Your bank or broker will still have voting discretion on your uninstructed shares with respect to ratification of our independent auditors (Proposal 2 of this Proxy Statement) or routine matters that may properly come before the meeting.

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Any shareholder giving a proxy may revoke it at any time before a vote is taken by:

duly executing a proxy bearing a later date;

executing a notice of revocation in a written instrument filed with the secretary of the Company; or

appearing at the meeting and notifying the secretary of the intention to vote in person.

Unless a contrary choice is specified, all shares represented