Proxy Processing

Connect with your shareowners during proxy season and all year long. Broadridge provides today's public companies with the strategic approach they need to effectively reach both registered and beneficial shareowners. Broadridge has the unique capability to cover all of the details from initial planning through proxy mailing to vote tabulation and reporting of your annual meeting while you focus on increasing investor confidence and reducing your bottom line.

ShareLink proxy processing can help your company save time and money.

• Simplify your experience by letting Broadridge manage your proxy process. One point of contact advises you from start to finish.



• Move your communications quickly and get them into the hands of shareowners efficiently and accurately. Our complete distribution/mailing services include duplicate proxy card detection, and high speed insertion technology.



• Reduce processing and mailing expenses by combining ballots that are mailed to a common address into one envelope, or by merging several accounts onto one document to one address. Utilizing technology unique to Broadridge corporations can utilize programs such as summary processing and consolidation to combine accounts and ballots by household. This directly reduces print and postage fees associated with your annual meeting process.



• Save money with Broadridge's electronic delivery technology. Broadridge can gather and maintain your shareowner consents for both householding and electronic delivery.



• Employee stock purchase plans provide a tremendous opportunity for a company’s employees to invest. Through the use of our technology and management we can help administer the use of electronic delivery for your employee shareowners through Broadridge's automated "assumed e-consent process."



• Your annual report and notice of proxy statement materials are efficiently processed and quickly injected into the USPS system. It’s Broadridge’s unique capacity to distribute 6.5 million pieces per day, using 16 polywrap machines, 24 inserters and JETVision technology that enable us to execute such fast and accurate distribution.



• As the largest processor of beneficial proxies for publicly traded companies in the U.S., Broadridge distributes over 800 million pieces of shareowner communication per year, and offers both hard copy and email formats.

Proxy Voting

• Congruent internet/telephone voting allows both registered and beneficial shareowners to vote through the same internet site and telephone number.



• Our system scans and reports registered, beneficial and employee votes to help ensure that all votes are counted in time for your meeting to help you reach quorum faster.



• Broadridge is the only service provider to offer a continuously updated master tabulation of voting results for registered, employee and beneficial vote returns.



• ProxyVote.com offers beneficial and registered shareowners, as well as 401(k), ESOP and ESPP participants, the convenience of voting their shares on the internet. ProxyVote.com is the only site available that offers registered, beneficial and employee shareowners the opportunity to sign up for electronic delivery at the conclusion of their voting session.



• Access all of your shareowner communication reports, vote status and meeting day information at broadridge.com.

Convenient Online Client Portal

Access your mailing and tabulation information in real-time, online at broadridge.com. Our easy-to-use client portal gives you access to your shareowner information through a secure log-in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Information available on broadridge.com includes:

• Account details



• Record dates



• Proxy voting results



• Job status



• Proxy planning details



• Updates to contact information



• NOBO (non-objecting beneficial owners) list requests

ShareLink Dividend Processing

Broadridge can help you reach your shareowners while saving you time and money. Issuing a dividend check can be an opportune time to stay connected to your shareowners. ShareLink makes it simple, by offering customized letter design you can target specific messages to each shareowner. With ShareLink, you can transform routine shareowner communications into effective marketing targeted to your most highly qualified audience.

• Customized letter design with personalized, variable text capability so you can target specific messages to each shareowner



• Check stock with the latest security features



• The option to include a management photo for that added personal touch

Data Security

No other entity can duplicate our process

At Broadridge, the security of your assets is given prime importance. We ensure the protection to everything from sensitive electronic data to your proxy ballots. All documents and electronic media containing client information are properly managed and secured.

Broadridge's computer systems utilize the latest virus protection, firewalls, and intrusion detection capabilities. Our concern for security is also evident in our dual hosting and disaster recovery methodologies. These ensure that our internal system availability remains at virtually 100%.

Broadridge's information security addresses the requirements associated with Gramm-Leach Safeguards, HIPPA privacy and security standards, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Looking for a more efficient proxy processing and voting system? Call 800.353.0103