Company: AVD
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-079166
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Company: AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 via the Internet, as described below. Persons who beneficially own stock can vote at the Annual Meeting, provided that they obtain a “legal proxy” from the person or entity holding the stock, typically a broker, bank or trustee. A beneficial owner can obtain a legal proxy by making a request to the broker, bank or trustee. Under a legal proxy, the bank, broker or trustee confers all its legal rights as a record holder (which have been passed on to it by the ultimate record holder) to grant proxies or to vote at the Annual Meeting.

Set forth below are the various means—Internet, telephone and mail—for voting your shares.

You may submit your proxy on the Internet or by phone.Stockholders of record and most beneficial owners of Common Stock may vote via the Internet at www.proxyvote.com or by phone (as per instructions on the proxy card), 24 hours per day and seven days per week. You will need the 16-digit control number included on your proxy card. Votes submitted via the Internet or phone must be received by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Your Internet or telephonic vote will authorize the named proxies to vote your shares in the same manner as if you marked, signed and returned a proxy card.

You may submit your proxy by mail.If you request and receive printed proxy materials, then you may vote by any means indicated in the proxy card, including Internet, or by signing and dating the proxy card or voting instruction form received with this proxy statement and mailing it in the enclosed prepaid and addressed envelope. If you mark your choices on the card or voting instruction form, your shares will be voted as you instruct.

You may vote during the Annual Meeting.Instructions on how to vote while participating in the Annual Meeting via live webcast are posted at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AVD2025.

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Beneficial Owners.If you are the beneficial owner of your shares, you should have received an Internet Notice or voting instructions from the broker or other nominee holding your shares. Please follow those instructions. The availability of telephone and Internet voting will depend on the voting process of the broker or nominee. Shares held beneficially may not be voted during the Annual Meeting without a legal proxy from your broker or nominee.

All proxy voting procedures, including those by the Internet and by telephone, will include instructions on how to vote either “FOR” or “AGAINST” any or all director nominees.