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Annual Meeting of Shareholders to Be Held on August 15, 2012.

 

        

Meeting Information            

 

    
         Meeting Type:   Annual    
  THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY        For holders as of:   June 18, 2012    
        

 

Date:   August 15, 2012 

  

 

      Time:   11:00 AM EDT

    
        

 

Location:   OARDC Fisher Auditorium

    
        

  1680 Madison Ave.

    
      

  Wooster, OH 44691

 

    
 

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  THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY

  ATTN JEANNETTE KNUDSEN

  ONE STRAWBERRY LANE

  ORRVILLE, OH 44667-0280

            
      

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The J. M. Smucker Company Notice of 2012 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statements        2012 Annual Report

 

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The Board of Directors recommends you vote “FOR” the following proposals:

      

The Board of Directors recommends you vote “AGAINST”

the following proposals:

    
 

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Election of Directors to the class whose term of office will expire in 2015.

    

4.    

  

Shareholder proposal urging Directors to act to repeal the classified Board of Directors.

  
 

        Nominees:

                
 

 

        1a.

  

 

Paul J. Dolan

        

5.

  

Shareholder proposal requesting an expanded green coffee sustainability plan.

                   
 

        1b.

  

Nancy Lopez Knight

        

 

NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

  
 

        1c.

  

Gary A. Oatey

          
 

        1d.

  

Alex Shumate

          
 

        1e.

  

Timothy P. Smucker

                
                     
 

2.

  

Ratification of appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the 2013 fiscal year.

    
           
 

3.    

  

Advisory approval of the Company’s executive compensation.

      
             

 

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