Company: ATLN
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001605888-25-000041
Chunk: 30

Company: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 30
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, present in person or by proxy, is required for approval of this Proposal.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE RATIFICATION THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM.

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#### PROPOSAL 5
<div align='center'>APPROVAL OF THE COMPANY’S 2025 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN</div>

#### Proposal
The Board believes that stock-based incentive awards play an important role in our success by encouraging and enabling our officers, employees, non-employee directors and consultants upon whose judgment, initiative and efforts we largely depend for the successful conduct of our business to acquire or increase an equity interest in our company.

On April 3, 2025, the Board adopted, subject to stockholder approval, the Atlantic International Corp. 2025 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”). The Plan is designed to enable the flexibility to grant equity awards to our officers, employees, non-employee directors and consultants and to ensure that we can continue to grant equity awards to eligible recipients at levels determined to be appropriate by the Board and/or the Compensation Committee. A copy of the Plan is attached as Exhibit A to this Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Board believes that providing such persons with a direct stake in our company will have the effect of strengthening their commitment to the success of the Company and stimulating their efforts on behalf of the Company, assisting the Company and its Subsidiaries in attracting new employees, officers and consultants and retaining existing employees and consultants, optimizing the profitability and growth of the Company and its subsidiaries through incentives which are consistent with the Company’s goals, proving the grantees with an incentive for excellence in individual performance, promoting teamwork among employees, consultants and non-employee directors, attracting and retaining highly qualified persons to serve as non-employee directors and to promote ownership by such non-employee directors of a greater proprietary interest in the Company, thereby aligning their interests more closely with the interests of the Company’s shareholders.

Summary of the material features of the Incentive Plan

The following description of certain features of the Incentive Plan is intended to be a summary only. The summary is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit A .

Purpose

The purpose of the Incentive Plan is to enhance our ability to attract, retain and motivate persons