Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000223
Chunk: 52

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 52
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 recommends a vote AGAINST this proposal. |

| 2025 Proxy 
 Statement  | 69 |

Proposals Requiring Your Vote Other Matters As of the date of this Proxy Statement’s printing, we do not intend to submit any matters to the meeting other than those set forth herein, and we know of no additional matters that will be presented by others. However, if any other business should come before the meeting and you have voted by proxy, the directors named on the voting website and your proxy card as the Proxy Committee (the “Proxy Committee”) have discretionary authority to vote your shares with respect to such matters in accordance with their best judgment. By order of the Board of Directors. Jennifer M. Daniels Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

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Questions and Answers About Our Annual Meeting

| Who                            
 receives this Proxy Statement? |

We are distributing the proxy materials, including this Proxy Statement, our 2024 Annual Report and the proxy card, or the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, as applicable, beginning on or about March 26, 2025 to all stockholders entitled to vote. The Annual Report being made available on the internet and mailed with the Proxy Statement is not part of the proxy-soliciting material.

| Who                                        
 is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting? |

We have one class of voting stock outstanding: Common Stock. If you were a record owner of our Common Stock on March 10, 2025, the record date for voting at the Annual Meeting, you are entitled to vote at the meeting. At the close of business on March 10, 2025, there were 811,084,347 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote. Each share of Common Stock has one vote.

| How                   
 can I vote my shares? |

You can vote your shares in two ways: either by proxy or electronically during the virtual Annual Meeting. If you choose to vote by proxy, you may do so using the internet, the telephone or, if you received a printed copy of your proxy materials, the mail. Each of these procedures is more fully explained below. Even if you plan to attend the virtual meeting, the Board recommends that you vote by proxy.

| How                            
 can I vote my shares by proxy? |

You may vote your proxy by internet, telephone or, if you received a printed copy of your proxy materials, by mail, each as more fully explained below. In each case, the deadline for voting is 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time