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UNITED STATES

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Stockholder Meeting to Be Held on February 4, 2021.

 

     

 

PRICESMART, INC.

 

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Meeting Information

 

Meeting Type: Annual Meeting

 

For holders as of: December 7, 2020

 

Date: February 4, 2021        Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time

 

Location:  Meeting live via the Internet-please visit

                  www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PSMT2021.

 

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PRICESMART, INC.

9740 SCRANTON ROAD

SAN DIEGO, CA 92121-1745

    

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    Voting Items        

  

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR

the following:

 

 

1.

   Election of Directors
     Nominees:
 

01)

   Sherry S. Bahrambeygui            06)   Mitchell G. Lynn                  
  02)    Jeffrey Fisher    07)   Patricia Márquez                  
  03)    Gordon H. Hanson    08)   Robert E. Price                  
  04)    Beatriz V. Infante    09)   David Snyder                  
  05)    Leon C. Janks    10)   Edgar Zurcher                  
                           

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

 

 

2.

   To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s executive officers for fiscal year 2020.

 

 

3.

   To approve a proposed amendment to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Award Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for the grant of awards by 500,000 shares.

 

 

4.

   To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2021.

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

 

 

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