PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar
Inc. (NYSE: CAT) will conduct its 2017 annual meeting of stockholders on Wednesday, June 14, at
8 a.m. EDT at its construction equipment manufacturing facility in Athens, Georgia. The proxy statement containing the meeting details and admission procedures is expected to
be available no later than the first week in May to stockholders of record as of April 17,
2017.
About Caterpillar
For more than 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on
every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets. With 2016
sales and revenues of $38.537 billion, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of
construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The
company principally operates through its three product segments - Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy &
Transportation - and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. For more information,
visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media.
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within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "believe," "estimate," "will be,"
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statements do not guarantee future performance, and we do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.
Caterpillar's actual results may differ materially from those described or implied in our forward-looking statements based on
a number of factors, including, but not limited to: (i) global and regional economic conditions and economic conditions in the
industries we serve; (ii) government monetary or fiscal policies and infrastructure spending; (iii) commodity price changes,
component price increases, fluctuations in demand for our products or significant shortages of component products; (iv)
disruptions or volatility in global financial markets limiting our sources of liquidity or the liquidity of our customers,
dealers and suppliers; (v) political and economic risks, commercial instability and events beyond our control in the countries in
which we operate; (vi) failure to maintain our credit ratings and potential resulting increases to our cost of borrowing and
adverse effects on our cost of funds, liquidity, competitive position and access to capital markets; (vii) our Financial Products
segment's risks associated with the financial services industry; (viii) changes in interest rates or market liquidity conditions;
(ix) an increase in delinquencies, repossessions or net losses of Cat Financial's customers; (x) new regulations or changes in
financial services regulations; (xi) a failure to realize, or a delay in realizing, all of the anticipated benefits of our
acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; (xii) international trade policies and their impact on demand for our products and
our competitive position; (xiii) our ability to develop, produce and market quality products that meet our customers' needs;
(xiv) the impact of the highly competitive environment in which we operate on our sales and pricing; (xv) failure to realize all
of the anticipated benefits from initiatives to increase our productivity, efficiency and cash flow and to reduce costs; (xvi)
additional restructuring costs or a failure to realize anticipated savings or benefits from past or future cost reduction
actions; (xvii) inventory management decisions and sourcing practices of our dealers and our OEM customers; (xviii) compliance
with environmental laws and regulations; (xix) alleged or actual violations of trade or anti-corruption laws and regulations;
(xx) additional tax expense or exposure; (xxi) currency fluctuations; (xxii) our or Cat Financial's compliance with financial
covenants; (xxiii) increased pension plan funding obligations; (xxiv) union disputes or other employee relations issues; (xxv)
significant legal proceedings, claims, lawsuits or government investigations; (xxvi) changes in accounting standards; (xxvii)
failure or breach of IT security; (xxviii) adverse effects of unexpected events including natural disasters; and (xxix) other
factors described in more detail under "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 16, 2016 for the year ended December 31, 2015.
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