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But why would a $48 billion New York City-based company come to northern Indiana for its largest meeting of the year?

Pfizer's board decided a few years back that it wanted to start rotating its annual meeting to different sites, said Bryant Haskins, a spokesman for the company.

"They decided they wanted to get out and kick the tires," Haskins said.The company picks cities where Pfizer has a plant or a lab, he said.

Pfizer has a logistics center near South Bend Regional Airport.The company has been site-hopping for the last six years.

Last year's meeting was in Lincoln, Neb., where it has a plant for animal health products.Prior to 2000, its meetings were held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City, a block away from corporate headquarters.The agenda The annual meeting, open only to shareholders, has a mostly routine agenda.There's the annual election of officers (all this year's candidates are incumbents) and the ratification of KPMG LLG as the company's accounting firm.The meeting also will include a vote on three shareholder proposals, two of which are sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.One of the PETA proposals would require the board to issue a report just...

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