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| SIGMA-ALDRICH CORPORATION | Meeting Type: Annual | |||||||||
| For holders as of: 3/6/09 | ||||||||||
| Date: 5/5/09 Time:11:00 a.m. CDT | ||||||||||
| Location: | Sigma-Aldrich’s Life Science and | |||||||||
| High Technology Center, | ||||||||||
| 2909 Laclede Avenue | ||||||||||
| St. Louis, MO 63103
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This proxy will be voted FOR items 1 and 2 unless otherwise directed, and in the discretion of the proxies, on whatever other business may properly come before the meeting. | ||||||||
The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the following:
| 1. | ELECTION OF DIRECTORS: 01) Rebecca M. Bergman, 02) David R. Harvey, |
03) W. Lee McCollum, 04) Jai P. Nagarkatti, 05) Avi M. Nash,
06) Steven M. Paul, 07) J. Pedro Reinhard, 08) Timothy R.G. Sear,
09) D. Dean Spatz and 10) Barrett A. Toan.
| 2. | Ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accountant for 2009. |
