Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
Chunk: 3

Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
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 16, 2025. This statement is first being mailed to the stockholders on or about March 14, 2025.

The Corporation is the parent company and the holder of all the outstanding shares of the capital stock of Wesbanco Bank, Inc. (the “Bank”), Wheeling, West Virginia. The Corporation also maintains two other operating subsidiaries, namely, Wesbanco Securities, Inc., St. Clairsville, Ohio, and Wesbanco Insurance Services, Inc., Shinnston, West Virginia. On February 28, 2025, the Corporation acquired Premier Financial Corp. ("Premier"), an Ohio corporation, by merger, with Wesbanco issuing approximately 28,738,146 shares of its common stock as consideration in the merger. By reason of the merger, the Corporation also currently has two non-operating subsidiaries which are in the process of winding up their businesses and being dissolved, PFC Capital, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company, and First Insurance Group of the Midwest, Inc., an Ohio corporation.

<div align='center'>Proxies</div>

The proxies are solicited by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board” or “Board of Directors”), and the cost thereof is being borne by the Corporation. Employees and Directors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries may follow up on this written solicitation by telephone or other methods of communication.

Proxies may be revoked by the stockholders who execute them at any time prior to the exercise thereof by a later dated proxy, by written notice to the Corporation, or by appearing in person and voting at the Annual Meeting. Unless so revoked, the shares represented by all proxies will be voted, by the persons named in the proxies, at the Annual Meeting and all adjournments thereof, in accordance with the specifications set forth therein, or absent such specifications, in accordance with the discretion of the holders of such proxies.

As an alternative to submitting the enclosed proxy, stockholders who hold shares directly in their name may vote over the Internet or by telephone by following the instructions set forth on the Proxy Card.

Delivery of ProxyMaterials to Households

Annually, the Corporation mails to each registered stockholder at a shared address, not previously notified, a separate notice of its intention to household proxy materials. Beneficial stockholders (those who hold common shares through a financial institution, broker, or other record holder) are notified of the house holding process by the record holder. Those registered and beneficial stockholders who are eligible and have not opted-out (as