Hanesbrands (HBI)

Advance Notice of Director Nominations and New Business

Our bylaws provide that with respect to an annual or special meeting of stockholders, nominations of persons for election to the board of directors and the proposal of business to be considered by stockholders may be made only:

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In order to comply with the advance notice procedures of our bylaws, a stockholder must give written notice to our corporate secretary at least 120 days, but no more that 150 days in advance of the anniversary of the date that we mailed the notice for the preceding year’s annual meeting. For nominations to the board, the notice must include information about the director nominee, including his or her name, holdings of our stock, as well as information required by SEC rules regarding elections to boards of directors. For other business that a stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, the notice must include the reasons for proposing the business at the meeting and a discussion of the stockholder’s material interest in such business. Whether the notice relates to a nomination to the board of directors or to other business to be proposed at the meeting, the notice also must include information about the stockholder and the stockholder’s holdings of our stock.

With respect to special meetings of stockholders, only the business specified in our notice of the special meeting may be brought before the meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors at a special meeting may be made only: