Company: NEOG
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-114381
Chunk: 14

Company: NEOGEN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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 incentive compensation is payable in the form of PSUs that measure the Company’s performance over a three-year period against pre-determined targets established by the Board, subject to adjustment based on the Company’s relative total shareholder return (TSR) as compared to a peer group. These equity awards align the executives’ interests with longer term shareholder returns and also serve to help retain the services of executives.

| Neogen Corporation | 2025 Proxy Statement | 15 |

Proposal 2: To Approve, On An Advisory Basis, The Compensation of Named Executive Officers

| For these reasons, the Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the adoptionof the following resolution: |

“RESOLVED, that the shareholders of the Company approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, compensation tables and narrative discussion set forth in the Company’s Proxy Statement for its 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.”

| Neogen Corporation | 2025 Proxy Statement | 16 |

Proposal 3:Ratification of the Appointment of the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Proposal 3: Ratifi cation of the Appointment of the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Company’s Audit Committee (“Audit Committee”) has appointed BDO USA P.C. (“BDO”) to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2026. While not required, the Company is submitting the appointment to the shareholders for their ratification as a matter of good corporate practice. The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting on the proposal is required for ratification. If the appointment is not ratified, it will be considered as a recommendation that the Audit Committee consider the appointment of a different firm to serve as independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year. Even if the appointment is ratified, the Audit Committee can select a different independent registered public accounting firm at any time.

| The Board recommends that shareholders vote “FOR” ratification of the   appointment of BDO as the Company’s independent registered publicaccounting firm for fiscal 2026. |

Relationship with BDO BDO has acted as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm since 2014. BDO has advised that neither the firm nor any of its members or associates has any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Company or any of its affiliates other than as