Company: PRMB
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-009675
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Company: Primo Brands Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
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 of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is not ratified by the stockholders, the Audit Committee will consider this fact when it appoints the independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. Even if the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is ratified, the Audit Committee retains the discretion to appoint a different independent auditor at any time if it determines that such a change is in the interests of Primo Brands. VOTE REQUIRED This proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the votes cast on the proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the proposal. Because brokers have discretionary authority to vote on the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, we do not expect any broker non-votes in connection with this proposal. 14

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TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management the Company’s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024. The Audit Committee has also received from, and discussed with, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm the matters that they are required to provide to the Audit Committee, including the matters required to be discussed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“ PCAOB”) and the SEC. The Audit Committee received the written disclosures and the letter from the auditor required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent auditor’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with the independent auditor its independence from the Company and management. Additionally, the Audit Committee has considered the compatibility of non-audit services with the auditor’s independence. The Audit Committee also discussed with the independent auditor the overall scope and plans for the audit. The Audit Committee met with the independent auditor, with and without management present, to discuss the results of their examination, their evaluation of the Company’s internal controls and the overall quality of the Company’s financial reporting. In performing all of these functions, the Audit Committee acts in an oversight capacity. In its oversight role, the Audit Committee relies on the work and assurances of the Company’s management, which has the primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting and for preparing the financial statements, and other reports, and of the independent auditor, who is engaged to audit and report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial