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A.M. CASTLE & CO. ATTN: MAREC E. EDGAR 1420 KENSINGTON ROAD, SUITE 220 OAK BROOK, ILLINOIS 60523 | VOTE BY INTERNET - www.proxyvote.com Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form. | |
ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE PROXY MATERIALS If you would like to reduce the costs incurred by our company in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically via e-mail or the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to vote using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access proxy materials electronically in future years. | ||
VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903 Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions. | ||
VOTE BY MAIL Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. | ||
TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS: | KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDS | |
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The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following Class II Directors and Newly-Appointed Class I Directors: | ||||||||
FOR ALL o | WITHHOLD ALL o | FOR ALL EXCEPT o | To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark "For All Except" and write the number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below: | |||||
1. Election of Directors | ||||||||
Nominees | ||||||||
01 Pamela Forbes Lieberman | 02 Kenneth H. Traub | 03 Allan J. Young | 04 Jonathan B. Mellin | 05 Steven W. Scheinkman | ||||
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3. | ||||||||
2. To approve the Company's executive compensation on an advisory (non-binding) basis. | ||||||||
3. To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015. | ||||||||
NOTE: This proxy confers discretionary authority for the proxy holders to vote on any other matter that may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. | ||||||||
Please sign exactly as your name(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name, by authorized officer. | ||||||||
Signature (PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX) | Date | Signature (Joint Owners) | Date | |||||
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting: The Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2014, Notice of Annual Meeting & Proxy Statement is/are available at www.proxyvote.com | |||||
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A.M. CASTLE & CO. Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 28, 2015 The undersigned, revoking all prior proxies, hereby constitutes and appoints Patrick R. Anderson and Marec E. Edgar, his true and lawful agent and proxy with full power of substitution in each, to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of A.M. Castle & Co. to be held at the office of the Company, 1420 Kensington Road, Suite 220, Oak Brook, Illinois at 10:00 a.m., Central Daylight Savings Time, on Thursday, May 28, 2015, and at any adjournments or postponements thereof, to cast on behalf of the undersigned all votes that the undersigned is entitled to cast at such meeting, and otherwise represent the undersigned at the meeting with all powers possessed by the undersigned if personally present at the meeting. THE VOTES ENTITLED TO BE CAST BY THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE CAST AS INSTRUCTED ON THE REVERSE SIDE HEREOF. IF THIS PROXY IS EXECUTED BUT NO INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN, THE VOTES ENTITLED TO BE CAST BY THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE CAST "FOR" ELECTION OF EACH OF THE NOMINEES FOR DIRECTORS IN PROPOSAL 1 AND "FOR" PROPOSALS 2 AND 3. THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED IN THE DISCRECTION OF THE PROXY HOLDER ON ANY OTHER MATTER THAT MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING OR ANY ADJOURNMENTS OR POSTPONEMENTS THEREOF. Continued and to be signed on reverse side | |||||