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SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. )
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BUFFTON CORPORATION
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(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)
BUFFTON CORPORATION
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BUFFTON CORPORATION
Dear Stockholder:
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Buffton Corporation is scheduled to be
held on May 16, 1997. Since time is short and your vote is important, we have
established a method to enable you to vote via toll-free ProxyGram. To be sure
your vote is received in time, you are requested to vote by using the toll-free
ProxyGram procedure. Please follow the simple steps listed below. We thank you
for your consideration and support.
TOLL-FREE PROXYGRAM OPERATORS WHO ARE INDEPENDENT OF THE COMPANY
ARE AVAILABLE TO ASSIST YOU NOW!!!
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Call Toll-Free 1-800-521-8450 between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00
midnight eastern time.
2. Tell the operator that you wish to send a collect ProxyGram to
ID No. 5062, Buffton Corporation.
3. State your name, address and telephone number.
4. State your bank or broker at which your shares are held and your
control number as shown below:
Name: <NA.1>
Bank/Broker: <Broker>
Control number: <ControlNum>
Number of shares: <NumShares>
If you need assistance in voting, please call D.F. King & Co., at
1-800-714-3312.
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BUFFTON CORPORATION
For the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be
held May 16, 1997
The undersigned hereby (a) acknowledges receipt of the Notice of Annual Meeting
of Stockholders of Buffton Corporation (the "Company") to be held on May 16,
1997 and of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders in connection
therewith, each dated April 23, 1997, (b) appoints Robert H. McLean and Robert
Korman as Proxies, or either of them, each with the power to appoint a
substitute, (c) authorizes the Proxies to represent and vote as designated
below, all the shares of Common Stock of the Company held of record by the
undersigned on April 11, 1997, at such annual meeting and at any adjournment(s)
thereof and (d) revokes any proxies heretofore given.
1. For the Election of Directors (Proposed by the Company);
( ) FOR all nominees listed below ( ) WITHHOLD AUTHORITY
(except as marked to the contrary for all nominees
below) below
Alan Tremain, O.B.E, Walter D. Rogers, Jr. and Hampton Hodges
(INSTRUCTION: To withhold authority for any individual
nominee(s), give that nominee(s) name to the operator.
2. Proposal of the Company to approve the sale (the "Proposed Sale") to a
wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation of substantially all of the
assets of Current Technology, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of
the Company.
( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST ( ) ABSTAIN
3. If the requisite number of Stockholders approve the Proposed Sale, proposal
to approve an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company to (a) effect a change of the name of the Company to BFX Hospitality
Group, Inc., and (b) restate the Company's existing Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended, into a single document.
( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST ( ) ABSTAIN
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4. In their discretion, the Proxies are authorized to vote upon such other
business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment(s)
thereof.
PROXY SOLICITATED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED AS SPECIFIED. IF NO SPECIFICATION IS INDICATED, THIS
PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR THE ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF EACH OF THE
NOMINEES LISTED ON THIS PROXY, FOR RATIFICATION OF THE PROPOSED SALE, FOR
RATIFICATION OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND IN THE
DISCRETION OF THE PROXIES ON ANY OTHER BUSINESS.
