Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc. (NYSE: HTSI, formerly Ruddick Corporation (NYSE:RDK), the “Company”) is a holding company headquartered in Matthews, N.C., with consolidated revenues of $4.3 billion for the fiscal year ended October 2, 2011 ("Fiscal 2011"). The Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Harris Teeter, Inc. (“Harris Teeter”) is engaged in the retail supermarket business. Harris Teeter operates a regional chain of supermarkets in eight states primarily in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States, and the District of Columbia. At the end of Fiscal 2011, the Company had total consolidated assets of $1.8 billion