On March 19, 2018, Vintage Capital Management, LLC announced that on March 9, 2018, Brian R. Kahn delivered a letter to the Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. nominating a slate of 10 director candidates—Matthew E. Avril, Mark Barfield, Brian R. Kahn, Melvin L. Keating, Andrew M. Laurence, Jeremy Nowak, Matthew Perelman, Alexander Sloane, Brent Turner and Patrick Walsh, for election to the board at the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders.