formpowerofattorneymkeat

0001360530-18-000045.txt : 20180426 0001360530-18-000045.hdr.sgml : 20180426 20180426161055 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001360530-18-000045 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20180424 FILED AS OF DATE: 20180426 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20180426 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KEATING MELVIN L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001263463 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34507 FILM NUMBER: 18778634 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 18 DRIFTWOOD DRIVE CITY: LIVINGSTON STATE: NJ ZIP: 07039 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001360530 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-FOOD STORES [5400] IRS NUMBER: 113664322 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1229 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: THE VITAMIN SHOPPE STREET 2: 300 HARMON MEADOW BLVD. CITY: SECAUCUS STATE: NJ ZIP: 07094 BUSINESS PHONE: 2018685959 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: THE VITAMIN SHOPPE STREET 2: 300 HARMON MEADOW BLVD. CITY: SECAUCUS STATE: NJ ZIP: 07094 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VS HOLDINGS, INC. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20060425 3 1 wf-form3_152477344169344.xml FORM 3 X0206 3 2018-04-24 1 0001360530 Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. VSI 0001263463 KEATING MELVIN L C/O VITAMIN SHOPPE, INC. 300 HARMON MEADOW BLVD. SECAUCUS NJ 07094 1 0 0 0 Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ David M. Kastin, as Attorney-In-Fact 2018-04-26 EX-24 2 formpowerofattorneymkeat.htm POA MELVIN KEATING formpowerofattorneymkeat

39307.1 POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints David M. Kastin, Brenda M. Galgano and Michael A. Jaffe, and each of them acting or signing alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. (the "Company"), any and all reports required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company, which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 or other report required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and timely file such report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; (3) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and (4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which may be legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his reasonable discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file reports under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 20th day of April, 2018. /s/ Melvin L. Keating

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