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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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SCHEDULE 14A

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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on April 27, 2011.

 

 

 

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

   

 

                    Meeting Information

 

Meeting Type:    Annual Meeting

For holders as of:    February 28, 2011

Date:     April 27, 2011             Time: 3:00 PM EDT

Location:   Conrad Indianapolis

 

                   50 West Washington Street

 

                   Indianapolis, IN 46204

 

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ATTN:  INVESTOR RELATIONS

600 EAST 96TH STREET

SUITE 100

INDIANAPOLIS,  IN 46240

   

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Voting items                 

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposal:

                 

 

1.     Election of Directors

               

 

1a.   Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr

         

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR EVERY ONE YEAR on the following nonbinding proposal:

 

3.        Please indicate your preference as to the frequency of holding shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation, as either every year, every two years, or every three years, or you may abstain from voting.

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposal:

 

4.        To ratify the reappointment by the Board of Directors of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent public accountants for the fiscal year 2011.

 

NOTE: The Board of Directors may transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

   

 

1b.   Barrington H. Branch

            

 

1c.   Geoffrey A. Button

            

 

1d.   William Cavanaugh III

            

 

1e.   Ngaire E. Cuneo

            

 

1f.    Charles R. Eitel

            

 

1g.   Martin C. Jischke, PhD

            

 

1h.   Dennis D. Oklak

            

 

1i.    Jack R. Shaw

            

 

1j.    Lynn C. Thurber

            

 

1k.   Robert J. Woodward, Jr

            

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following nonbinding proposal:

            

 

2.        Resolved, that shareholders approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, including the Company’s compensation philosophy, policies and practices, as discussed and disclosed in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the executive compensation tables, and any narrative executive compensation disclosure contained in the Proxy Statement.

         

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