Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000100
Chunk: 2

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 2
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 Statement to ensure your representation and the presence of a quorum at the Annual Meeting. For the convenience of stockholders, we have made it easy for you to vote via a secure internet link, as further described below.

If your shares are held in the name of a broker, trust, bank or other nominee, and you receive these materials through your broker or through another intermediary, please complete and return the materials in accordance with the instructions provided to you by such broker or other intermediary.

We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your ongoing support of and interest in Heritage Distilling.

Sincerely,

#### Justin Stiefel

#### Chairman and CEO
Gig Harbor, Washington
June [9], 2025

Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Meeting Details

Matters to Be Voted On

The principal business of the Annual Meeting will be to:

| 1 |     | Elect two Class III Directors for a three-year term ending as of the annual meeting in 2028 (the "Director Proposal");                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2 |     | Approve, on an advisory and non-binding basis, the compensation of our named executive officers (the "Advisory Compensation Proposal");                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 3 |     | Select, on an advisory and non-binding basis, whether future advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers should be every one, two or three years (the "Advisory Vote Proposal");                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 4 |     | Approve, for purposes of complying with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d), the potential issuance of shares of our common stock pursuant to the ELOC Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 23, 2025, by and between our Company and C/M Capital Master Fund, LP (the “ELOC Share Issuance Proposal”);                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 5 |     | Approve, for the purpose of complying with the applicable provisions of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635, the potential issuance of shares of our common stock upon conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Series B Preferred Stock") and the exercise of warrants issued pursuant to Securities Purchase Agreements between our Company and certain accredited investors related to the issuance of such securities (the “SPA Share Issuance Proposal”); |
| 6 |     | Approve an amendment of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock from