Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 outcomes through both organic and inorganic strategies. By positioning key business leaders closer to our customers, we have strengthened customer relationships and unlocked additional growth opportunities. Furthermore, we have successfully expanded our distribution across various channels and categories. Our efforts have been refocused on innovation and new product development, and we remain committed to investing in our leading brands. On the cost front, we delivered approximately $25 million in cost savings for the year from our $60 million multi-year cost reduction program. This program has simplified the organization, delayered our management structure and rationalized our global footprint through a reduction of our manufacturing facilities. Given continued economic uncertainty, we enhanced our $60 million multi-year cost reduction program, bringing the new total to $100 million. Our proactive approach to cost management allowed us to deliver improved operating margins and cash flows for a second consecutive year. This improvement, and our commitment to debt reduction over the past two years, enables us to expand our capital allocation strategy to include share repurchases and potential M&A. We will continue to support our quarterly dividend and strengthen our balance sheet through debt reduction. As we continue to execute against our refined strategy, we are confident that the actions we are taking will drive long-term stockholder value. We thank you for your continued support of ACCO Brands and encourage you to vote your shares prior to the Annual Meeting. It is important that your shares are represented at the meeting. You can submit your proxy by using a toll-free telephone number, by mail, or through the Internet. Instructions for using these services are provided on the accompanying proxy card. If you decide to vote your shares using the accompanying proxy card, we urge you to complete, sign, date and return it promptly.

| E. Mark RajkowskiChairman of the Boardof Directors |     | Thomas TedfordPresident and Chief Executive Officer |

| Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders 
 Location:                                     | Date & Time: | Virtual at : http://www.viewproxy.com/ACCO/2025 | Tuesday, May 20, 2025 |
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| Record Date:                                  |              | March 24, 2025                                  |                       |

To register for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders ("Annual Meeting") of ACCO Brands Corporation (“ACCO Brands” or the “Company”) please visit http://www.viewproxy.com/ACCO/2025. Please register no later than one hour prior to the meeting.

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