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Article in Internal Publication "QSC&V"
McDonald's shareholders -- exercise your right to vote!
Each year, McDonald's shareholders have the opportunity to vote at the Annual
Meeting of Shareholders. During the second week in April, shareholders were
mailed an Annual Report and a Proxy Statement, along with a proxy and voting
instruction card.
The Proxy Statement provides important company information including directors'
names, backgrounds, and stock holdings. It also explains the following items
to be voted on at the Annual Meeting to be held at 10:30 a.m., May 20, 1999, at
the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois:
Item 1. Election of Directors. Hall Adams, Jr., Gordon C. Gray, Terry L.
Savage, and Fred L. Turner are nominees for the Board of Directors. The Board
recommends a vote FOR all nominees.
Item 2. Approval of Auditors. The Board is asking shareholders to vote FOR
the approval of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors for 1999. Ernst & Young LLP
audited the company's financial statements in 1998.
Item 3. Shareholder proposal to declassify the Board. The General Fund of the
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees advised the company
that it intends to present a proposal to declassify the Board at the Annual
Meeting. McDonald's Board currently operates under a classified board
structure that affords the company and its shareholders valuable protection
against potentially coercive takeover tactics, whereby a party attempts to
acquire control on terms that do not offer the greatest value to all
shareholders. Accordingly, the Board believes this proposal is not in the best
interests of the company's shareholders and recommends that shareholders vote
AGAINST it.
Please read the proxy material, consider the issues, and exercise your right to
vote by one of the following methods:
- - call the toll-free phone number indicated on your proxy card
- - access the Internet voting site at www.eproxyvote.com/mcd or
www.mcdonalds.com/corporate/investor or
- - mail your signed proxy in the envelope provided
If you are a shareholder and have not received your Annual Report and proxy
materials, or if you need a duplicate proxy card, please call McDonald's
Shareholder Services at First Chicago Trust Company, 800/621-7825 (1-800-Mc1-
STCK). Shareholders outside of the U.S. and Canada can call collect, 201/222-
4990.
Whether you own one share or one thousand shares, your vote counts!
For more information, call Lynn Camp, Investor Relations, 630/623-8432.
