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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 our periodically published sustainability reports, we provide updated metrics on greenhouse gas emissions, energy, water withdrawal and waste. During 2024, we retained a third-party audit firm to give limited assurance related to the data supporting certain of these metrics under ISAE 3000. Please see the Company’s current Corporate Sustainability Report athttp://www.american-vanguard.com/esgfor further details on our commitment to sustainability.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF THE COMPANY

The Company is committed to sound corporate governance principles and practices. Please visit the Company’s website atwww.american-vanguard.comfor the Company’s current Audit Committee Charter, Compensation Committee Charter, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter, Finance Committee Charter, the Code of Ethics and Conduct, the Employee Complaint Procedures for Accounting and Auditing Matters, and Corporate Governance Guidelines, all of which are also available to any stockholder upon request in printed form.

PROHIBITIONS ON INSIDER TRADING AND HEDGING

We haveadoptedan Insider Trading Policy that prohibits the purchase or sale of our securities by any director, officer, or employee who is in possession of material, non-public information regarding the Company. The policy provides guidance on what constitutes material information and when such information becomes public. It covers transactions by family members and entities controlled by insiders, and outlines procedures for pre-clearance of trades, blackout periods, and the use of Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. The policy also discusses the serious consequences of violating insider trading laws, including disciplinary action and potential criminal penalties. A copy of our Insider Trading Policy is filed as an exhibit to our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. It is also the policy of the Company that the Company will not engage in transactions in Company securities, or adopt any securities repurchase plans, while in possession of material non-public information relating to the Company or its securities other than in compliance with applicable law, subject to the policies and procedures adopted by the Company.

The Company also has an Anti-Hedging Policy that prohibits both directors and Section 16 officers from both hedging and other non-monetized transactions, such as zero-cost collars, forward sales contracts or other similar instruments, which allow a person to lock in much of the value of his or her stock holdings, generally in exchange for all or part of the potential for upside appreciation in the stock. The Company believes that such instruments place the subject shares at risk of unexpected disposition (as, in the case of a call or foreclosure) and change