Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000043920-25-000004
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Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 timely voting instructions from their customers. Brokers do not have discretionary voting authority on behalf their customers with respect to "non-routine" matters, and a broker non-vote occurs when a broker does not receive voting instructions from its customer on a non-routine matter.

Only the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent auditor is considered a "routine" matter for which brokers may vote uninstructed shares. No other proposal to be voted on at the Annual Meeting is considered a "routine" matter, so your broker cannot vote your Class B Common Stock on any of the other proposals unless you provide your broker with voting instructions for each of these matters. If you do not provide voting instructions on a "non-routine" matter, your shares will not be voted on that matter. It is, therefore, important you vote your shares.

This Proxy Statement, the form of proxy and the Company’s Annual Report are available at www.proxyvote.com.

Greif - Proxy Statement 6

#### PROPOSAL 1: Election of Directors
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee (the “Nominating Committee”) has recommended the ten director nominees named below for election as directors at the Annual Meeting. All of these director nominees are presently serving on our Board of Directors (the “Board”). Each nominee has consented to being named in this proxy statement and to serve if elected for a one-year term.

Vicki L. Avril-Groves retired from the Board as of November 1, 2024. The Board would like to acknowledge Ms. Avril-Groves for her outstanding service on our Board over the past 20 years.

The ten presently serving director nominees have been nominated to serve as directors based on their record of service and individual contributions to the overall mission and responsibilities of the Board. Unless otherwise specified, the shares of Class B Common Stock represented by the proxies at the Annual Meeting will be voted to elect the ten director nominees named below. In the event any of these ten director nominees are unable to serve (which is not anticipated), the persons named as proxies in the proxy card may vote for another director nominee of their choice. Th e names and biographies of each of the director nominees for election to the Board of Directors are set forth below.

| Director Nominees |

| OLE G. ROSGAARD |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|                 |     | Age: 61                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Director since 202