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Exhibit 99

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

TARGET ANNOUNCES VOTING RESULTS FROM ITS

2011 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

MINNEAPOLIS, June 10, 2011 – Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) announced voting results from its 2011 annual shareholders’ meeting. Shareholders supported the Board’s recommendation on each of the five management proposals presented at the meeting. Shareholders did not support two shareholder proposals.

 

The Carideo Group, the independent Inspector of Elections, has certified all voting results for Target’s 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, held June 8. The final tabulation indicates that approximately 597 million shares were voted, representing 86.6 percent of outstanding shares. The final tabulation of votes for each proposal is as follows:

 

1.            Shareholders elected each of the 11 board nominees for a one-year term by a majority of the votes cast:

 

Nominee

 

Percent For

 

Percent Against

Roxanne S. Austin

 

97.8

 

2.2

Calvin Darden

 

96.2

 

3.8

Mary N. Dillon

 

96.7

 

3.3

James A. Johnson

 

95.2

 

4.8

Mary E. Minnick

 

98.1

 

1.9

Anne M. Mulcahy

 

88.0

 

12.0

Derica W. Rice

 

98.0

 

2.0

Stephen W. Sanger

 

95.6

 

4.4

Gregg W. Steinhafel

 

96.6

 

3.4

John G. Stumpf

 

96.6

 

3.4

Solomon D. Trujillo

 

98.3

 

1.7

 



 

2.            Shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Independent Registered Accounting Firm for 2011:

 

 

 

Percent

 

For

 

96.6

 

Against

 

2.9

 

Abstain

 

0.5

 

 

 

3.            Shareholders approved the Target Corporation 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan:

 

 

 

Percent

 

For

 

84.7

 

Against

 

14.5

 

Abstain

 

0.8

 

 

 

4.            Shareholders approved a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation (“Say-on-Pay”):

 

 

 

Percent

 

For

 

92.2

 

Against

 

7.8

 

 

 

5.            Shareholders selected a term of “1 Year” as the non-binding advisory recommendation for the frequency of Say-on-Pay votes:

 

 

 

Percent

 

1 Year

 

90.7

 

2 Years

 

0.5

 

3 Years

 

8.8

 

 

 

6.            Shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal on compensation benchmarking:

 

 

 

Percent

 

For

 

29.5

 

Against

 

69.2

 

Abstain

 

1.3

 

 



 

7.            Shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal on electronics recycling:

 

 

 

Percent

 

For

 

24.6

 

Against

 

55.2

 

Abstain

 

20.2

 

 

 

About Target

 

Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,755 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. In addition, the company operates a credit card segment that offers branded proprietary credit card products. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs; today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week. For more information about Target’s commitment to corporate responsibility, visit Target.com/hereforgood.

 

For more information, visit Target.com/Pressroom.

 

 

Contacts: John Hulbert, Investors, (612) 761-6627

Morgan O’Murray, Financial Media, (612) 761-5818

Target Media Hotline, (612) 696-3400

 

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