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BED BATH & BEYOND PROXY STATEMENT
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STOCK PRICE PERFORMANCE GRAPH
The graph shown below compares the performance of the Company’s common stock with that of the S&P 500 Index, the
S&P Specialty Retail Index and the S&P Retail Composite Index over the same period (assuming the investment of $100 in the
Company’s common stock and each of the three Indexes on March 3, 2007, and the reinvestment of dividends, if any).
NEXT YEAR’S ANNUAL MEETING
Proposals which shareholders intend to present at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders must be received by the Company
no later than January 24, 2013, to be presented at the meeting or to be eligible for inclusion in next year’s proxy statement
under the SEC’s proxy rules. Such proposals can be sent to the Company at 650 Liberty Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083, Attn:
Warren Eisenberg, Co-Chairman and Secretary.
In addition, under the Company’s Amended By-laws, any proposal for consideration at the 2013 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders submitted by a shareholder other than pursuant to Rule 14a-8 will be considered timely if it is received by the
Secretary of the Company at its principal executive offices at 650 Liberty Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083 between the
close of business on February 22, 2013 and the close of business on March 23, 2013, and is otherwise in compliance with the
requirements set forth in the Company’s Amended By-laws. If the date of the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders is more
than 30 days before or more than 60 days after the anniversary date of the 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, notice must
be received not earlier than the 120th day prior to the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and not later than the close
of business on the 90th day prior to the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or if the first public announcement of the date
of the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders is less than 100 days prior to the date of the 2013 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders, the 10th day following the date on which notice of the date of the meeting is given to shareholders or made
public, whichever occurs first.