Company: CRL
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-030908
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Company: CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 located at 500 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 8:00 a.m., and any postponements or adjournments thereof (the Meeting). The Notice of Meeting, this Proxy Statement, the enclosed proxy card and our Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended December 28, 2024 are being mailed to shareholders on or about April 2, 2025. Copies of these documents may also be obtained free of charge through our website at www.criver.com/annual2025. When proxies in the accompanying form are properly executed and received, the shares represented thereby will be voted at the Meeting in accordance with the directions noted thereon. If no direction is indicated on the proxy and it is signed, the shares represented thereby will be voted: “ FOR ” the election of the Board’s nominees as directors, the advisory vote on executive compensation, and the ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2025; and “ AGAINST ” the shareholder proposal. Proxies submitted via internet voting will be voted in accordance with the directions submitted thereby. Any proxy given pursuant to this solicitation via mailing a proxy card may be subsequently changed or revoked by the person giving it at any time before it is exercised by delivering a written notice of revocation to our Corporate Secretary at 251 Ballardvale Street, Wilmington, Massachusetts 01887, or by delivering a duly executed proxy bearing a later date. Any shareholder who submitted their proxy via internet voting may subsequently change or revoke the proxy at any time before it is exercised by voting via the internet at a later time. Any shareholder who has executed a proxy but is present at the Meeting, and who wishes to vote in person, may do so by revoking his or her proxy as described in the preceding sentences. Shares represented by valid proxies in the form enclosed or submitted via internet voting, received in time for use at the Meeting and not revoked at or prior to the Meeting, will be voted at the Meeting. The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock is necessary to constitute a quorum at the Meeting. Votes of shareholders of record who are present at the Meeting in person or by proxy, abstentions and broker non-votes are counted as present or represented at the Meeting for purposes of determining whether a quorum exists. If you hold your shares of common stock through