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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on April 18, 2017.

         
    Meeting Information

UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

 

 

Meeting Type:

For holders as of:

Annual Meeting

February 21, 2017

    Date:    April 18, 2017       Time:    8:30 AM, EDT



(UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS INC. LOGO)

 

UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.
ATTN: DAVID A. TUTAS
2801 EAST BELTLINE AVE. NE
GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49525

 

 

  Location:

Universal Forest Products, Inc.
Technology and Training Bldg.
2880 East Beltline Lane, NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525

   
 

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Voting Items    
     
The Board of Directors recommends you vote
FOR the following nominees:
 
     
1.

Election of Directors 

 
     
 

To elect three directors to serve until 2020

 
     
  Nominees:  
     

  1a. Gary F. Goode    
         
  1b. Mary E. Tuuk    
         
  1c. Michael G. Wooldridge    

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposals:
   
2. To consider and vote upon a proposal to approve of an Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation to add an additional 40,000,000 shares of Common Stock.
   
3. To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting fi          for fi          2017.
   
4. To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to our Named Executives.
   
NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

  

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