Windstream 2009 Annual Report Download - page 4

WINDSTREAM CORPORATION
4001 Rodney Parham Road
Little Rock, Arkansas 72212
Telephone: [phone]
www.windstream.com
NOTICE OF 2010 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To be Held May 5, 2010
To the Stockholders of Windstream Corporation:
Notice Is Hereby Given That the 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Windstream Corporation
(“Windstream”) will be held at the Capital Hotel, 111 West Markham, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201, on
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. (local time), for the following purposes:
1. To elect eight directors to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their
successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier removal, resignation or death;
2. To adopt and approve the Amended and Restated 2006 Equity Incentive Plan, a copy of which is
attached to this proxy statement as Appendix A;
3. To consider and approve an advisory (non-binding) resolution concerning the Company’s
executive compensation policies;
4. To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Windstream’s independent
registered public accountant for 2010;
5. To vote on a stockholder proposal; and
6. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any postponement or
adjournment thereof.
Only holders of Common Stock of record at the close of business on March 17, 2010 are entitled to notice of
and to vote at the meeting or at any adjournment or postponement thereof.
Beginning on March 26, 2010, we began mailing our stockholders a notice containing instructions on how
to access our 2009 Annual Report, Proxy Statement and Annual Report on Form 10-K and to vote online. The
notice also included instructions on how to receive those Annual Meeting materials by mail. If you received
those Annual Meeting materials by mail, the proxy card from the Board of Directors was enclosed with this
notice and those materials.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
John P. Fletcher
Secretary
Little Rock, Arkansas
March 26, 2010
WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING, PLEASE VOTE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
TO RECORD YOUR VOTE PROMPTLY. PRIOR TO THE MEETING YOU MAY VOTE ON THE
INTERNET, BY TELEPHONE OR BY MAIL.
Importance notice regarding the availability of proxy materials for the 2010 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders to be held on May 5, 2010. Windstream’s Proxy Statement and Annual Report to security
holders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 is also available at www.windstream.com.