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0001181431-13-042076.txt : 20130731 0001181431-13-042076.hdr.sgml : 20130731 20130731205206 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-13-042076 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130731 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130731 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130731 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001575515 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-GROCERY STORES [5411] IRS NUMBER: 320331600 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1229 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 11811 N. TATUM BOULEVARD SUITE 2400 CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85028 BUSINESS PHONE: 480-814-8016 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 11811 N. TATUM BOULEVARD SUITE 2400 CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85028 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Sprouts Farmers Markets, LLC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20130426 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Fortunato Joe CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001372127 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-36029 FILM NUMBER: 131000641 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 300 SIXTH AVENUE CITY: PITTSBURGH STATE: PA ZIP: 15222 3 1 rrd386734.xml JOE FORTUNATO CLOSING FORM 3 X0206 3 2013-07-31 1 0001575515 Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. SFM 0001372127 Fortunato Joe 11811 N.TATUM BLVD SUITE 2400 PHOENIX AZ 85028 1 0 0 0 The reporting person holds no securities. Brandon F. Lombardi, Attorney-in-Fact for Joe Fortunato 2013-07-31 EX-24.1 2 rrd347872_394004.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd347872_394004.html

POWER OF ATTORNEY
             KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Joe Fortunato, hereby constitutes and appoints each of James Douglas Sanders, Amin N. Maredia and Brandon F. Lombardi and each of them acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:
             1. execute and file for and on behalf of the undersigned a Form ID, and any amendments thereto, in order to obtain access codes necessary to make electronic filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC");

             2.  execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5 relating to the Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (the "Company") in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act) and the rules thereunder;

             3. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and the timely filing of such form with the SEC and any other authority, including the New York Stock Exchange; and

             4. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her discretion.

             The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

             This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

             IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 31st day of July, 2013.

/s/ Joe Fortunato
Joe Fortunato







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