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Table of Contents 38 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Shareholder Proposals for the 2016 Annual Meeting Under the rules of the SEC, if you would like to submit a proposal for inclusion in the proxy materials for our 2016 annual meeting, the proposal must be received by our Vice President, Corporate Secretary at 2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49002 on or prior to November 20, 2015. The inclusion of any proposal in the proxy statement and form of proxy for such meeting will be subject to applicable SEC rules. Under our By-Laws, which are available in the Corporate Governance area of the Investor section of our website at www.stryker.com/ investors/bylaws or may be obtained by written request to our Vice President, Corporate Secretary at 2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49002, certain procedures are provided that shareholders must follow to nominate a person for election as a director at an annual meeting or to bring an item of business before an annual meeting. These procedures require that notice of an intention to nominate a person for director and/or to bring an item of business before our 2016 annual meeting must be received in writing by our Vice President, Corporate Secretary at 2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49002 no earlier than December 31, 2015, and no later than January 30, 2016. The notice must contain certain information about the shareholder making the proposal, including a representation that the shareholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to nominate the person named in the notice or bring the item of business before the meeting, and about the nominee and/or the item of business and, in the case of a nomination, must be accompanied by a written consent of the proposed nominee to being named as a nominee and to serve as a director if elected. Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors and officers and persons who own more than 10% of our Common Stock to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC and the NYSE and to furnish us with copies of the reports. Specific due dates for these reports have been established and we are required to report in this proxy statement any failure by directors, officers and 10% holders to file such reports on a timely basis. At the present time, there is no 10% holder. Based on our review of such reports and written representations from our directors and officers, we believe that all such filing requirements were met with respect to 2014. However, it recently came to the attention of Mr. Parfet that a trust established by him for the benefit of his descendants had purchased a total of 705 shares of our Common Stock in four transactions in 2010 and 2011 that were inadvertently not reported to the SEC as indirectly owned by Mr. Parfet at that time. A Form 5 was filed with the SEC on February 6, 2015 to report those transactions. Other Action At this time, we do not know of any matter to be brought before the meeting other than those referred to above. If any additional matter should properly come before the meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the enclosed proxy to vote the proxy in accordance with their judgment on any such matter. Expenses of Solicitation The cost of solicitation of proxies for the annual meeting is being paid by the Company. In addition to solicitation by mail, proxies may be solicited by officers, directors and regular employees of the Company personally or by telephone or other means of communication. The Company will, upon request, reimburse brokers and other nominees for their reasonable expenses in forwarding the proxy material to the beneficial owners of the stock held in street name by such persons. By Order of the Board of Directors Dean H. Bergy Vice President, Corporate Secretary March 19, 2015