BlueLinx Holdings Inc.

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Geopolitical developments and military hostilities, including the military conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran, may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

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Recent and escalating geopolitical tensions and military activity, including conflicts involving Iran, the Middle East, Ukraine, and Venezuela, may adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations. Heightened geopolitical instability in the Middle East has contributed to uncertainty in global economic and financial conditions, including potential constraints affecting key international shipping routes, such as the Strait of Hormuz. Although we do not have any direct operations in regions currently experiencing conflict, including Iran and the Middle East, the ongoing conflict and any further escalation, including additional military actions, retaliatory measures, sanctions, disruptions to trade or transportation routes, cyberattacks, or other governmental or market responses, has and could continue to lead to significant disruption of global energy supplies and increases in global energy prices, heighten inflationary pressures on our input costs and supply chain, adversely affect global supply chains, energy markets, commodity prices, currency exchange rates, financial markets and overall macroeconomic conditions. Within our business units, we deliver products to our customers primarily via our fleet of trucks, which we fuel both onsite and through street fuel programs. We also utilize third-party freight providers to deliver our products and the costs associated with them could affect the expense incurred to deliver products to our customers. Our operating profit may be adversely affected if we are unable to obtain the fuel we require or to fully offset the anticipated impact of higher fuel prices or third-party freight costs through increased prices or fuel surcharges to our customers. If shortages continue to occur in the global supply of necessary petroleum products and we are not able to pass along the full impact of increased petroleum prices to our customers or otherwise protect ourselves by entering into forward purchase contracts, then our results of operations would be adversely affected. In addition, such conditions may adversely affect consumer discretionary spending, which could reduce demand for our products. While we believe the impacts of the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran may have an effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, we are unable to predict the extent or nature of these impacts at this time.