Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000100
Chunk: 6

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 6
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 as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025 (the "Auditor Proposal"); and

| HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING COMPANY, INC. |     | 1 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

Questions and Answers

• The approval of a proposal to adjourn the Annual Meeting to a later date or time, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are an insufficient number of votes at the time of such adjournment to approve the other proposals to be voted on at the Annual Meeting (the "Adjournment Proposal").

It is possible that other business may come before the Annual Meeting, although we currently are not aware of any such matters.

How does the Board of Directors recommend I vote on these proposals?

The Board recommends that you vote:

| Proposals |     |                                |     | Board Recommendation |     | Page Reference |
| 1         |     | DIRECTOR PROPOSAL              |     | FOR                  
 each Nominee         |     |             16 |
| 2         |     | ADVISORY COMPENSATION PROPOSAL |     | FOR                  |     |             21 |
| 3         |     | ADVISORY VOTE PROPOSAL         |     | EVERY 3 YEARS        |     |             22 |
| 4         |     | ELOC SHARE ISSUANCE PROPOSAL   |     | FOR                  |     |             23 |
| 5         |     | SPA SHARE ISSUANCE PROPOSAL    |     | FOR                  |     |             28 |
| 6         |     | AUTHORIZED SHARE PROPOSAL      |     | FOR                  |     |             32 |
| 7         |     | INCENTIVE PLAN PROPOSAL        |     | FOR                  |     |             35 |
| 8         |     | AUDITOR PROPOSAL               |     | FOR                  |     |             42 |
| 9         |     | ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL           |     | FOR                  |     |             43 |

Who is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting?

If you owned shares of our common stock at the close of business on May 30, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting (the "Record Date"), you are entitled to vote those shares. On the Record Date, there were 12,050,386 shares of our common stock outstanding, which was our