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PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
The information required by this item about our Company’ s Executive Officers is included in Part I, “Item 1. Business” of
this Report on Form 10-K under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant.” All other information required by this
item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’ s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of
Shareholders to be held March 9, 2012 to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A.
The Company has adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics for Team Members and Directors pursuant to section 406 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A copy of our Code of Conduct and Ethics is publicly available on our Company website at
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company/pdfs/codeofconduct.pdf and the Company will provide disclosure of future
updates by posting them to our website. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this
Report on Form 10-K.
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’ s definitive Proxy Statement for
the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
The following table summarizes information about the Company’ s equity compensation plans by type as of September 25,
2011 (in thousands, except per share amounts):
Options
Weighted available
Options average for future
Plan category outstanding exercise price issuance
Approved by security holders 13,640 $ 48.99 6,585
Not approved by security holders - - -
Total 13,640 $ 48.99 6,585
All other information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’ s definitive Proxy
Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’ s definitive Proxy Statement for
the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’ s definitive Proxy Statement for
the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.