Hormel Foods To Hold Virtual Annual Meeting of Stockholders

The live webcast of the meeting will be held at 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 via www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRL2022 and is open to all registered stockholders or beneficial owners of the company’s common stock at the close of business on December 3, 2021. Stockholders will not be able to physically attend the Annual Meeting.

Stockholders will need the 16-digit control number found on the Notice of Internet Availability, the proxy card or on the instructions that accompany the proxy materials to participate in the Annual Meeting and vote shares electronically. If the shares are held in the name of a bank, broker or other holder of record, the voting instructions provided by the bank, broker or other holder of record should include the 16-digit control number.

Following the business of the stockholder meeting, there will be a question and answer session. Stockholders may submit a question in advance of the meeting at www.proxyvote.com after logging in with the control number. Questions may be submitted during the Annual Meeting through www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRL2022.

For those who want to attend who are not stockholders at the close of business on December 3, 2021, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRL2022 and register as a guest. Guests will not be able to vote or submit a question during the meeting.

Updates and further information will be available at https://investor.hormelfoods.com/ir-home/default.aspx.

This year, gift boxes will be available for pick up at the SPAM^® Museum during its regular business hours for registered stockholders or beneficial owners of the company’s common stock at the close of business on December 3, 2021, beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Sunday, January 30, 2022. Please have the Notice of Internet Availability, the proxy card or the voting instructions received available to receive the gift box. For SPAM^® Museum hours, please visit https://www.spam.com/museum.