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Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (the Company) has prepared and is currently distributing to the Company’s shareholders, a copy of the Stock Performance Graph that was inadvertently not included in the 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders. A copy of the letter and the addendum to the Annual Report are shown below.
[Chesapeake Utilities Corporation Logo]
April 19, 2007
Dear Stockholder:
As a result of a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule, the Stock Performance Graph is now required to be placed in the Annual Report to Shareholders rather than the Proxy Statement. While we included this Graph in our Annual Report on Form 10-K to the SEC, we inadvertently did not include the Graph in the Company’s 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders. We are providing this information to you as an addendum to our Annual Report, with the intention that it be part of that report.
As a reminder, we encourage you to vote your shares of the Company’s common stock via one of the methods provided in our Notice of 2007 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement that was mailed to you earlier this month - via telephone, internet, mail or through your broker (if you own shares beneficially through a bank, broker, other institution, etc.). You also have the capability to revoke a voted submitted by proxy at any time before voting is declared closed at the Annual Meeting, by submitting another timely and later dated proxy by telephone; the internet; delivery of a subsequent proxy executed by the same person that executed the prior proxy; delivery of a written statement to my attention, 909 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, DE 19904; or attendance at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and voting in person.
Sincerely,
/s/ Beth W. Cooper
Beth W. Cooper
Corporate Secretary
Addendum to the 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders
The Stock Performance Graph compares cumulative total shareholder return on a hypothetical investment in the Company’s common stock during the five fiscal years ended December 31, 2006, with the cumulative total shareholder return on a hypothetical investment in both (i) the S&P 500 Index and (ii) an industry index consisting of 30 Natural Gas Distribution and Integrated Natural Gas Companies as published by C.A. Turner Utility Reports. The comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2001 in the Company’s common stock and in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvested dividends.
Cumulative Total Stockholder Return | |||||||||||
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||
Chesapeake | $ 100 | $ 98 | $ 145 | $ 155 | $ 186 | $ 192 | |||||
Industry Index* | $ 100 | $ 96 | $ 121 | $ 156 | $ 200 | $ 236 | |||||
S & P 500 | $ 100 | $ 78 | $ 100 | $ 111 | $ 116 | $ 134 | |||||
*The thirty companies in the C.A. Turner industry index include AGL Resources, Inc., Atmos Energy Corporation, Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc., El Paso Corporation, Energen Corporation, Energy West, Inc., EnergySouth. Inc., Equitable Resources, Inc., KeySpan Corporation, Kinder Morgan, Inc., The Laclede Group, Inc., National Fuel Gas Company, New Jersey Resources Corporation, NICOR, Inc., Northwest Natural Gas Company, ONEOK, Inc., Peoples Energy Corporation, Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc., Questar Corporation, RGC Resources, Inc., SEMCO Energy, Inc., South Jersey Industries, Inc., Southern Union Company, Southwest Gas Corporation, Southwest Energy Company, UGI Corporation, WGL Holdings, Inc., and The Williams Companies, Inc. |