Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000111
Chunk: 81

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 81
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 has been mailed to you with this Proxy Statement. Except as provided above, the Annual Report is not to be considered a part of these proxy soliciting materials or subject to Regulations 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. The information contained in the “Audit Committee Report” shall not be deemed “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulations 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. We will provide upon written request, without charge, to each stockholder of record as of the Record Date, a copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the SEC. Any exhibits listed in the Form

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Availability of Annual Report on Form 10-K

10-K report also will be furnished upon request at the actual expense incurred by us in furnishing such exhibits. Any such requests should be directed to our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices at 9668 Bujacich Road, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.

### Other Business
While the Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders provides for the transaction of all other business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting, including any adjournments or postponements of the Annual Meeting, the Board knows of no matters to be brought before the Annual Meeting other than those referred to in this Proxy Statement. If, however, other matters are properly presented at the Annual Meeting, the individuals appointed as proxies will vote your shares as they determine in their discretion to be advisable.

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Appendix A

<div align='center'>FIRST AMENDMENT

TO

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

(Pursuant to Section 242 of the

General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

________, 2025</div>

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (the “ Corporation ”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ DGCL ”), does hereby certify as follows:

1. The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended by deleting Article IV and replacing it in