Summary of UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS INC

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment ofCertain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

(d) Election of New Director

Effective October 15, 2009, the Board of Directors of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (the "Corporation") took action to increase the size of the Board from nine members to ten members and filled the vacancy by electing Bruce A. Merino to the Board for a term expiring at the Corporation's annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2010.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Merino and any other person pursuant to which he was elected as a director.

Mr. Merino is the former senior vice president for The Home Depot, Inc. and the former president of its Expo Design Center. He was an executive officer of The Home Depot, Inc. from January of 2004 to September of 2007. The Home Depot, Inc. is a significant customer of the Corporation and represented approximately 27% of the Corporation's total net sales in fiscal 2008. However, the Corporation does not believe Mr. Merino's former position with The Home Depot, Inc. necessarily resulted in him having a material interest in the Corporation's transactions with The Home Depot, Inc.

Other than any interest Mr. Merino may have had as a result of his former employment and affiliation with The Home Depot, there have been no transactions since the completion of the Corporation's 2007 fiscal year, nor are there any currently proposed transactions, to which the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries was, or is to be, a party, and which the amount involved exceeds $120,000 and in which Mr. Merino had, or will have, a direct or indirect material interest that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Merino has not yet been appointed to a Board Committee.