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Shearman & Sterling LLP 18 | Shareholder Engagement companies that disclosed shareholder engagement in their proxy statements, disclosed the specifics as to how they engaged. Of the only Companies engaged with shareholders through a wide variety of means, including: The Engagement Menu Depending upon their objectives, time and resources, companies are engaging in a wide variety of ways. The foregoing can be put into three categories: § Required Engagement (i.e., activities that are required to be done), § Expected Engagement (i.e., activities that are customary for US public companies to engage in) § Extra Engagement (i.e., activities that are viewed as a higher level of engagement). It is this third category of engagement that leading companies are currently focusing on. Deciding on the company's engagement strategy depends upon a number of factors, including the goals the company is seeking to achieve through engagement, whether there are any issues of critical importance with which the company needs to engage, the degree to which the company's strategy needs to be socialized with investors, what information and access investors are looking for, the engagement practices of the company's competitors, and the company time and resources available for engagement. P E R I O D I C S E C R E P O R T S A N N U A L P R O X Y S TAT E M E N T S P R E S S R E L E A S E S A N N U A L I N V E S T O R D AY C O N F E R E N C E S O N E - O N - O N E M E E T I N G S A N A LY S T M E E T I N G S S H A R E H O L D E R N E W S L E T T E R S W E B S I T E P O S T I N G S I N V E S T O R R O A D S H O W S A D D I T I O N A L P R O X Y S O L I C I TAT I O N M AT E R I A L S C S R R E P O R T S I N V E S T O R S I T E V I S I T S Q U A R T E R LY E A R N I N G S R E L E A S E S / C O N F E R E N C E C A L L S " G L O S S Y " A N N U A L R E P O R T I N D U S T R Y C O N F E R E N C E S S O C I A L M E D I A D I S C L O S U R E S O P E N C O R P O R AT E G O V E R N A N C E C O N F E R E N C E C A L L S A G M 29 81