Windstream 2011 Annual Report Download - page 5

WINDSTREAM CORPORATION
4001 Rodney Parham Road
Little Rock, Arkansas 72212
Telephone: [phone]
www.windstream.com
NOTICE OF 2012 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To be Held May 9, 2012
To the Stockholders of Windstream Corporation:
Notice Is Hereby Given That the 2012 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 9, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. (local time), for the following purposes:
1. To elect nine directors to serve until the 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their successors
are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier removal, resignation or death;
2. To approve Windstream’s Performance Incentive Compensation Plan;
3. To vote on an advisory (non-binding) resolution on executive compensation;
4. To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Windstream’s independent registered
public accountant for 2012;
5. To vote on two stockholder proposals; 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 15, 2012 are entitled to notice of
and to vote at the meeting or at any adjournment or postponement thereof.
Beginning on March 27, 2012, we began mailing our stockholders a notice containing instructions on how
to access our 2011 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 27, 2012
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.
Important notice regarding the availability of proxy materials for the 2012 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders to be held on May 9, 2012. Windstream’s Proxy Statement and Annual Report to security
holders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 are also available at www.windstream.com.