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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 thereof. Only shareholders whose names appear of record on our books as of the close of business on July 29, 2025 (the "record date"), are entitled to notice of and to vote during the Annual Meeting or any adjournments thereof. You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting in person, but if you are unable to do so, please vote by proxy over the Internet, by telephone or by completing the enclosed proxy card and signing, dating and returning the card at your earliest convenience. Voting over the Internet, by telephone or by written proxy card will ensure your representation at the Annual Meeting regardless of whether you attend in person. If you attend the Annual Meeting and desire to revoke your proxy and vote in person, you may do so. In any event, you are entitled to revoke your proxy at any time before it is exercised. We are electronically disseminating Annual Meeting materials to our shareholders, as permitted under the “Notice and Access” rules approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Shareholders will receive a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials containing instructions on how to access Annual Meeting materials via the Internet. The Notice also provides instructions on how to obtain paper copies if preferred.

| By Order of the Board of Directors,                      |
| JUSTIN M. GROW                                           |
| Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary |

August 15, 2025 * * * * * * Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on September 24, 2025: The Culp, Inc. Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement and the Culp, Inc. Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report are available free of charge at www.culp.com and www.investorvote.com/CULP . * * * * * *

2025 Proxy Statement PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY This summary highlights certain information contained elsewhere in our Proxy Statement. Because the summary does not contain all of the information you should consider, we urge you to review the complete Proxy Statement carefully before voting. Annual meeting of shareholders

| Time, place, and voting matters    
 Date:                              | September 24, 2025                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Meeting agenda 
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               | Election of eight directors                                                
 Ratification of Grant Thornton as our independent auditors for fiscal 2026 |
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