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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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ZIONS BANCORPORATION

 

 

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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on May 24, 2013

 

     

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    Meeting Information      
ZIONS BANCORPORATION     Meeting Type: Annual Meeting      

 

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    For holders as of: March 20, 2013      
    Date: May 24, 2013         Time: 1:00 PM MDT      
    Location: Zions Bank Building      
   

  Founders Room, 18th Floor

     
   

  One South Main Street

     
   

  Salt Lake City, UT 84133

 

     
         
   

You are receiving this communication because you hold shares in the above named company.

 

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Voting items            

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The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following:

             
1.   

 

Election of Directors

     

3        Approval, on a nonbinding advisory basis, of the compensation paid to the company’s named executive officers with respect to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

 

       
   Nominees              
1a.    Jerry C. Atkin              
1b.

 

  

 

R. D. Cash

 

             
1c.   

 

Patricia Frobes

      The Board of Directors recommends you vote 1 YEAR in response to the following proposal:        

 

1d.

  

 

J. David Heaney

     

 

4       To recommend, by non-binding vote, the frequency of the shareholder nonbinding vote to approve executive compensation.

       
1e.   

 

Roger B. Porter

             
1f.   

 

Stephen D. Quinn

      The Board of Directors recommends you vote AGAINST the following proposal:        
1g.

 

  

Harris H. Simmons

 

     

 

5       That the shareholders request the Board of Directors to establish a policy requiring that the Board’s chairman be an “independent director.”

       
1h.   

 

L.E. Simmons

             
1i.   

 

Shelley Thomas Williams

             
1j.   

 

Steven C. Wheelwright

             

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3.

     

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2

  

 

Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm to audit the Company’s financial statements for the current fiscal year.

             
                
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